blague
Britishnoun
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Etymology
Origin of blague
C19: from French
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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
"Even Octave," I said, "refrains, on ne blague pas la mort."
From Memoirs of My Dead Life by George (George Augustus) Moore
"Does he keep it up all the time—this blague?"
From Questionable Shapes by William Dean Howells
Save in his over-hasty acceptance of the French blague version of "The Sinking of the Vengeur," Carlyle has never laid himself open to the reproach of essential inaccuracy.
From Thomas Carlyle by John Nichol
This appeared to me to be mere Mpongwe "blague," but, curious to say, the sequel completely justified both assertions.
From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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