Persiflage
Persiflage
(PUR-suh-flahzh)
Noun:
-Light, bantering talk or writing.
-A frivolous or flippant style of treating a subject.
From French word persifler meaning "to banter.” Entered English in the 1750s.
Used in a Sentence:
“Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage.”
~D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love, 1920
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