palaver
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And a little after that I took her slippers home from the Charity Ball at the Grand Palaver.
From Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich by Leacock, Stephen
Palaver, also a travellers' word from the African coast, is Port. palavra, word, speech, Greco-Lat. parabola.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest
The Duke was bowled home in a snorting motor to the brilliant rotunda of the Grand Palaver, itself waiterless and supperless.
From Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich by Leacock, Stephen
Palaver, pa-lav′Ä—r, n. talk or conversation, esp. idle talk: talk intended to deceive: a public conference: in Africa, a talk with the natives.—v.i. to use conversation: to flatter: to talk idly.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
"Of Heaven" means much; share in the National Palaver it may, or may as probably not mean.
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
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