ficellen.
/fɪˈsɛl/, U.S. /fiˈsɛl/ 1. In combination, as ficelle colour, the colour of pack-thread; ficelle-lace, string-coloured lace. Also ficelle-coloured adj.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > grey or greyness > [adjective] > brownish grey
bice1330
butternut1772
stone-coloured1772
stone1848
ficelle-coloured1882
oatmeal1885
moleskin-coloured1903
browny-grey1905
mole-grey1906
mole1908
stony1910
taupe1911
1882 Queen 22 July 94/1 No dress looked prettier than a thin canvas of dark ficelle colour.
1882 World 21 June 18/1 A white muslin trimmed with wide flouncings of ficelle lace.
1900 Westm. Gaz. 5 Feb. 2/1 Hat of ficelle-coloured straw.
1927 Observer 12 June 11/4 Ficelle coloured lace.
2. A trick, artifice, (stage) device.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] > a trick, deception
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syllogism1387
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cozenage1592
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junt1608
firk1611
overreach?1615
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ludification1623
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strategy1672
jilt1683
disingenuity1691
fun1699
jugglementa1708
spring1753
shavie1767
rig?1775
deception1794
Yorkshire bite1795
fakement1811
fake1829
practical1833
deceptivity1843
tread-behind1844
fly1861
schlenter1864
Sinonism1864
racket1869
have1885
ficelle1890
wheeze1903
fast one1912
roughie1914
spun-yarn trick1916
fastie1931
phoney baloney1933
fake-out1955
okey-doke1964
mind-fuck1971
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > theatrical equipment or accessories > [noun] > machinery for effects
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machine1609
machinery1687
ficelle1890
1890 E. Dowson Let. 8 June (1967) 152 There is more psychological motive in it and less of ‘ficelle’ which Bouthors objected to so in the ‘Diary’.
1894 W. Archer Theatr. ‘World’ 1893 xviii. 112 I..did not quite..believe in it, taking it rather as a mere ficelle.
a1916 H. James Art of Novel (1934) 322 Half the dramatist's art, as we well know, is in the use of ficelles.
a1916 H. James Art of Novel (1934) 323 The ‘ficelle’ character of the subordinate party is..artfully dissimulated.
1920 G. Murray in H. G. Wells Outl. Hist. iii. xvii. 107/1 True, raids on women were a real cause of war, but they were also a very favourite ficelle of fiction.
1968 Listener 26 Sept. 412/3 No Pucelle, Candy's a ficelle; and..her fate is to be briefly grabbed by a series of stereo~types.
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