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
Naples—bridal couples, love, joy of life, antiquities, modernity, liberalism, conservatism, idealism, realism, naturalism,—blague, blague, the whole thing!
From Plays: Comrades; Facing Death; Pariah; Easter by Warner Oland
There was a good deal of blague in these annual ceremonies, laughed at by Frenchmen of common sense.
From The Soul of the War by Philip Gibbs
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 James Parton
"Even Octave," I said, "refrains, on ne blague pas la mort."
From Memoirs of My Dead Life by George (George Augustus) Moore
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