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blague

British  
/ blɑːɡ /

noun

  1. pretentious but empty talk; nonsense

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of blague

C19: from French

Example Sentences

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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

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

This food business is all one big blague.

From Elizabeth's Campaign by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

My cipher, if used according to the directions, is absolutely insoluble by any patience or experience, and the Fenian boast that they read it was pure "blague."

From The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II by Stillman, William James

It was all studio blague, and she knew it and offered no defense of her economies.

From A Daughter of the Middle Border by Garland, Hamlin

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