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 )
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At times," said de Puysange, with dignity, "your galimatias are insufferable.
From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by James Branch Cabell
Mrs. Tramore stared, as if at a language she had never heard, a farrago, a galimatias.
From The Chaperon by Henry James
We must, of course, acknowledge that as it is there are longueurs, intrusion of Saint Simonian jargon, passages of galimatias, and of preaching.
From The Country Doctor by Ellen Marriage
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
Our European galimatias about the ‘smiles of the fair,’ etc., look very mean beside ‘Achul en Benàt,’ methinks.
From Letters from Egypt by Janet Ross
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