#act

• Female strolling player — The feminine form of 'baladin'; a female strolling player, dancer, mime, or saltimbanque performing in popular street shows or medieval comedy plays. It represents a rare neologic appellative used in criticism and literature to describe a nonconformist female artist, a cheerful, dynamic character full of playful spirit.
• Balaklava — A historical settlement and former town on the Crimean Peninsula, currently a district of Sevastopol, renowned as a theater of operations during the Crimean War and for the famous battle of 1854; by extension, the term denotes a textile mask or knitted ski mask that fully covers the head and neck, leaving only the eyes and sometimes the mouth exposed, originally worn by British soldiers to endure the harsh winter frost of that region.