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blague

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Definitions

  1. Playful boasting, nonsense, or deceptive talk.

Word origin

Borrowed from French blague. Doublet of belly.

Used in a sentence

  • The difference is this: one may be obliged to maintain a falsehood from feelings of pride or self-respect, but a blague can be given up without a scruple.
  • The blague differs from the laughter of, say, Hugo's L'Homme qui rit, just as it is distinct from irony, which is never coarse or untrue, and indeed presupposes a whole shared system of values.
  • But whereas blague, as Pound seems to envisage it, begins with pomp and ends in derision, this poem emerges from circumstances of derision

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