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persiflage
/ ˈpɜːsɪˌflɑːʒ /
noun
- light frivolous conversation, style, or treatment; friendly teasing
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Word History and Origins
Origin of persiflage1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of persiflage1
C18: via French, from persifler to tease, from per- (intensive) + siffler to whistle, from Latin sībilāre to whistle
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Example Sentences
"There's a little too much persiflage around here," he said sternly.
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Forester smiled, but not without anger, at the quiet persiflage of her manner.
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The proprietor of the Kingsbury Tavern smiled indulgently at this persiflage.
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All this persiflage, in harmony with the polemics of the Gorgias, derides and degrades the Rhetors collectively.
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What brilliant effort of persiflage was to follow will never be known, for at that moment came Sanders.
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