brummagem

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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

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.

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Rosary-like, 202-page addenda to Author-Naturalist Peattie's An Almanac for Moderns, brummagem "classic."

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

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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