brummagem

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Climax of the whole brummagem business was the "Zoro Gardens."

From Time Magazine Archive

Theatre needs all the expert make-up and massage that Playwrights Bolton & Maugham know how to apply, all the stage presence and vivacity that Cornelia Otis Skinner brings to the role of the brummagem heroine.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

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In spite of his "brummagem" courage the wrath of the violent god was tremendous to him.

From Marion Fay by Trollope, Anthony