blague
Britishnoun
Other Word Forms
- blaguer noun
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
This foolish "blague" was accompanied by a description of Edison's new "aerophone," a steam machine which carried the voice a distance of one and a half miles.
From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Dyer, Frank Lewis
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
"It makes no difference," shouted Loubet, with the blague of a child of the Halles, "but this is not the Berlin road we are traveling, all the same."
From The Downfall by Robins, E. P.
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