legerdemain

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WOTD - 26 March 2006    

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From French léger de main "light (weight) of hand"

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    Rhymes: -eɪn
  • Hyphenation: leg‧er‧de‧main

[edit] Noun

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Wikipedia legerdemain (uncountable)

  1. Sleight of hand; "magic" trickery
  2. A show of skill or deceitful ability

[edit] Quotations

  • 1673 "Certainly, that they are to this day so rife in Italy and Spain, and so scant in Britain, is a shrewd ground to apprehend Legerdemain, and forgery, in the accounts we get of their later Saints." ---Gilbert Burnet. The mystery of iniquity unvailed. London, p128

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sleight of hand
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