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
That elaborate and delicate gallantry was a kind of blague for the whole nation; it made every Frenchman a knight of chivalry.
From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by W. H. Davenport Adams
Once caught by the blague of this misery, Germinie could not cut loose from it.
From Germinie Lacerteux by Jules de Goncourt
But there is a joyous quality to the San Francisco blague which sets it apart, even in the West.
From The Native Son by Inez Haynes Gillmore
‘Bude, is this worthy of an old friend, this blague?’
From The Disentanglers by Andrew Lang
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