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persiflage
(ˈpɜːsɪflɑːʒ, ‖ pɛrsiflaʒ)
[Fr., f. persifler to banter or rally slightly: see -age.]
Light banter or raillery; bantering, frivolous talk; a frivolous manner of treating any subject.
1757Chesterfield Lett. (1774) IV. 103 Upon these delicate occasions you must practise the ministerial shrugs and persiflage. 1799H. More Fem. Educ. (ed. 4) I. 15 The cold compound of irony, irreligion, selfishness, and sneer, which make up what the French..so well express by the term persiflage. 1814W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. II. 308. 1827 Scott Jrnl. 13 Jan., There is a turn for persiflage, a fear of ridicule among them. 1853Kingsley Hypatia xxi, All his smooth and shallow persiflage, even his shrewd satiric humour, had vanished. 1893A. Dobson H. Walpole ix. 254 The element in which his easy persiflage delights to disport itself. |