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
And now, out of that atmosphere of gayety and blague, this!
From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Robins, Elizabeth
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
Once caught by the blague of this misery, Germinie could not cut loose from it.
From Germinie Lacerteux by Goncourt, Jules de
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