blague
Britishnoun
Other Word Forms
- blaguer noun
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
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
This foolish "blague" was accompanied by a description of Edison's new "aerophone," a steam machine which carried the voice a distance of one and a half miles.
From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Dyer, Frank Lewis
Perhaps I tease him pour faire la blague!
From Witch-Doctors by Beadle, Charles
What are Cassells to do with this eccentric mass of blague and seriousness?
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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