palaver
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I shall not easily forget my pleasure in discovering that the quotation "Nollumus leges Angliaemutari" on which Noodle relied in his immortal oration, is to be found in the record of the Barons' great "Palaver."
From The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography by Strachey, John St. Loe
They had, three days ago, called on him at the Grand Palaver and served him with a pamphlet on "The Excavation of Mitylene" as a sort of writ.
From Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich by Leacock, Stephen
So gathered the storm, till all the town, like the great rotunda of the Grand Palaver, was filled with a silent "call for Mr. Tomlinson," voiceless and ominous.
From Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich by Leacock, Stephen
Palaver, also a travellers' word from the African coast, is Port. palavra, word, speech, Greco-Lat. parabola.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest
Never did Castor and Pollux come surging into battle as Dr. Boomer and Dr. Boyster bore down upon the Grand Palaver Hotel.
From Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich by Leacock, Stephen
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