blague
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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
Jupillon felt that his customary blague was arrested in his throat.
From Germinie Lacerteux by Goncourt, Jules de
In a few days he was up and about, as full of la blague as ever.
From The Enormous Room by Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin)
‘Bude, is this worthy of an old friend, this blague?’
From The Disentanglers by Lang, Andrew
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