legerdemain
Origin of legerdemain
1Other words from legerdemain
- leg·er·de·main·ist, noun
Words Nearby legerdemain
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How to use legerdemain in a sentence
The ad world knows it needs to change, it’s facing calls to change, it says it’s going to change, but then in the perfect act of legerdemain, it does … absolutely nothing.
People magazine called them the “Liberaces of legerdemain,” after the outrageously overdressed Las Vegas star.
Siegfried Fischbacher, half of large-animal magic team Siegfried & Roy, dies at 81 | Matt Schudel | January 14, 2021 | Washington PostOne act of legislative legerdemain was succeeded by another.
Nancy Pelosi Becoming House Speaker Again Would Be Sweet Justice | Robert Shrum | April 27, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThey are impossible of explanation on any hypothesis calculated to reduce his work to the vulgar plane of legerdemain.
Do the Dead Return? | AnonymousProfessor Stanyon is one of the most prolific as well as one of the cleverest living writers, on the subject of legerdemain.
Magic | Ellis Stanyon
The horrible act of Poisoning and all the tricks and conveyances of juggling and legerdemain are fully deciphered.
Traditions, Superstitions and Folk-lore | Charles Hardwick"Of the marvellous art of legerdemain, Monsieur Arbuthnot," interrupted the Chevalier eagerly.
In the Days of My Youth | Amelia Ann Blandford EdwardsThe Alchemist and the Rosicrucian are no more, and of all their race, the professor of legerdemain alone survives.
In the Days of My Youth | Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards
British Dictionary definitions for legerdemain
/ (ˌlɛdʒədəˈmeɪn) /
another name for sleight of hand
cunning deception or trickery
Origin of legerdemain
1Derived forms of legerdemain
- legerdemainist, noun
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