Translation for '
flummery' from English to French
NOUN | a flummery | flummeries | |
SYNO | flummery | mummery |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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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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