brummagem
Example Sentences
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To the feeble hope, ordinarily, of some sort of brummagem Utopia of creature-comforts, characterized by equality of condition, uniformity of life and thought, pervasive state regulation and the obliteration of traditional morality.
From Time Magazine Archive
The outside of the car features leaded windows, cream panels, false brickwork and fake timbers, and the motif of brummagem antiquity is carried on inside.
From Time Magazine Archive
Climax of the whole brummagem business was the "Zoro Gardens."
From Time Magazine Archive
The audience descended safely, opened their eyes, found themselves once more in the brummagem Astor ballroom.
From Time Magazine Archive
In spite of his "brummagem" courage the wrath of the violent god was tremendous to him.
From Marion Fay by Anthony Trollope
