diablerie

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Bassan dies, not according to prophetic schedule, but largely because of Fedora's diablerie, ahead of time.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Maestro gets his laughs out of diablerie and the grotesque.

From Time Magazine Archive

Belated days of sunshine quickened all Hungary last week, speeding the Danube with tumbling freshets, warming Budapest to humorous appreciation of the first spring diablerie of Sari Fedak.

From Time Magazine Archive

Louis was charmed by this exquisite exhibition of drollery and diablerie, and three weeks later she was brought to dance at Versailles.

From Terribly Intimate Portraits by Loraine, Lorn

But the fifteenth century did a lot of diablerie in the West.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George