blague
Britishnoun
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Etymology
Origin of blague
C19: from French
Example Sentences
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On hearing of the Office's manifesto and list of Anglicisms, London's Punch declared it pretty gauche for the French to be talking so much blague.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was mandatory, for instance, to see an artist like Manet�with his dandyism and blague, his risky spontaneity and breadth of touch�as a father of later modernist painting.
From Time Magazine Archive
That was just his blague; he was having a good time, pretending to be what you took him for--an amateur cracksman; he made up that story to fool you.
From Nobody by Jacobs, W. L.
With this specimen of blague we may leave the caricaturists of France to fight it out with La Censure.
From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by Parton, James
And, when the door was closed, Ad�le began to roar with laughter: it had cost her only a little blague to unearth Germinie's secret.
From Germinie Lacerteux by Goncourt, Jules de
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