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 Translation for 'flummery' from English to French
NOUN   a flummery | flummeries
SYNO flummery | mummery
boniment {m} [mensonges]flummery [nonsense]
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Translation for 'flummery' from English to French

flummery [nonsense]
boniment {m} [mensonges]
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Usage Examples English
  • "Wurzel-Flummery" is a play by A. A. Milne, which was performed for the first time in 1917, in London.
  • Anyone can prattle nonsense, and they'll always be able to find people to believe it, especially if they can dress it up in superstitious flummery.
  • Elizabeth II loves flummery tarts.
  • He must have arranged the charade in order to judge for himself whether Archie and Margot were genuinely involved or the marriage license was flummery.
  • A pint of flummery was suggested as an alternative to [...] of bread and a [...] of new milk for the supper of sick inmates in Irish workhouses in the 1840s.

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