Both Uses of
virtuoso
in
Gulliver's Travels
- One of these virtuosi seemed to think that I might be an embryo, or abortive birth.†
Chpt 2 *virtuosi = people who are spectacularly skilled in a particular field
- no informer to watch my words and actions, or forge accusations against me for hire: here were no gibers, censurers, backbiters, pickpockets, highwaymen, housebreakers, attorneys, bawds, buffoons, gamesters, politicians, wits, splenetics, tedious talkers, controvertists, ravishers, murderers, robbers, virtuosos;†
Chpt 4
Definition:
someone who is spectacularly skilled in a particular field