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chantage

[ shahn-tazh ]

/ ʃɑ̃ˈtaʒ /

noun French.

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To cook in water that begins cold and then reaches a boil.

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Origin of chantage

First recorded in 1870–75

Words nearby chantage

chanson de geste, Chanson de Roland, chansonette, chansonnier, chant, chantage, chantant, Chant de guerre pour l'armée du Rhin, chantefable, chanter, chanterelle

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Example sentences from the Web for chantage

There are in London and every large city scores of men and women who live by blackmailing or chantage.
Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology|W. G. Aitchison Robertson
That was a bit of 'chantage' that you did with Dauriat; he gave you a thousand crowns to let Nathan alone.
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris|Honore de Balzac
This, of course, does not prove that the Members of the Council are amenable to Chantage.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 107, November 3, 1894|Various
With men such as Capt, chantage, as the French call it, is a favourite mode of obtaining wealth.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume III (of 3)|Charles James Wills

Thus the very basest of all trades, that of chantage, is encouraged by the law.
A Problem in Modern Ethics|John Addington Symonds

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