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 have seen this letter in which you tell me there is so much galimatias, and I assure you that I have not found any at all.
From The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete by Nathan Sheppard
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
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
"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
Mrs. Tramore stared, as if at a language she had never heard, a farrago, a galimatias.
From The Chaperon by Henry James
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