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jugglery

[ juhg-luh-ree ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural jug·gler·ies.

1250–1300; Middle English jogel ( e ) rie < Old French joglerie, equivalent to jogler juggler + -ie -y ³

But Count Cagliostro's career of jugglery and fraud was nearly over.

"No jugglery about this, however," he replied, looking somewhat amused.

Attached to each company are two or three who play on musical instruments, and amuse the people with their feats of jugglery.

That was a case of high mystification, of jugglery worthy of a street-corner mountebank.

And here M. Gabet said that, allowing for some jugglery, it was impossible not to conclude that there was diabolic agency at work.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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