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Jul. 24, 2015
Word of the Day

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\PUR-suh-flahzh\
noun
1. light, bantering talk or writing.
2. a frivolous or flippant style of treating a subject.
Quotes
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
Origin
Persiflage entered English in the 1750s. It is derived from the French word persifler meaning "to banter."
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