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Two days after President Bush's watch was supposedly swiped by an Albanian fingersmith, ABC News reported that the FBI's terrorist watch list has swelled to more than 500,000 names.
Bill Katovsky: Bush's Missing Watch and the Terrorist Watch List 2008
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He approaches the music always by way of the harmony -- the meat and muscles of it -- while his fingersmith virtuosics arise almost as an afterthought to the chords.
The Musical Maturing of Matt Savage Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2008
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He began carving and daubing at the age of five; a regular little fingersmith, his hands were never idle.
Promenades of an Impressionist James Huneker 1890
oroboros commented on the word fingersmith
A petty thief; a pickpocket; one cleverly dextrous in an occupation or art. Also, see here for less common connotations. The book Fingersmith by Sarah Waters is an engrossing read.
December 18, 2014