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tushery
/ ˈtʌʃərɪ /
noun
- literary.the use of affectedly archaic language in novels, etc
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Word History and Origins
Origin of tushery1
coined by Robert Louis Stevenson , from tush 1+ -ery
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Example Sentences
“Tushery” had been a name in use between Stevenson and Mr. Henley for romances of the Ivanhoe type.
From Project Gutenberg
I have had to leave Fontainebleau, when three hours would finish it, and go full-tilt at tushery for a while.
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It is not, as you might assume, a costume novel of eighteenth-century tushery.
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