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