galimatias
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of galimatias
First recorded in 1645–55; from French, word of obscure origin first attested in Montaigne ( jargon de galimathias )
Example Sentences
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"I fail to see," a dignified young lady stated, "what Cazaio, at least, has to do with your galimatias."
From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by James Branch Cabell
Why should there not be a double irony for the clever, just as there is a galimatias double for the dull?
From The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama by Augustin Filon
As a matter of fact, idle talk and galimatias of the sort are in no wise literature.
From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Georg Morris Cohen Brandes
Mrs. Tramore stared, as if at a language she had never heard, a farrago, a galimatias.
From The Chaperon by Henry James
Wilson, impatient in everything, had fluctuated between grandeur and galimatias, bathos and bad taste; De Quincey, at times supreme, had at others simply succumbed to "rigmarole."
From A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by George Saintsbury
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