tracasserie
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of tracasserie
from French, from tracasser to fuss about
Example Sentences
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The women I understand pretty well, and rare tracasserie there is among them—they are perfectly feminine in that respect at least.
From Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle by Shorter, Clement King
The Duchess of Fitz-Fulke, who loved tracasserie, Began to treat him with some small agacerie.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley
In this sort of wretched tracasserie the Barrys and H——s stand no chance with the Catons, the Tubbs, and F——s.
From Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners by Hazlitt, William
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