palter
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"They wanted to hear my perspective on the company. And they wanted to bend my ear with their own thoughts," said Palter, co-founder of EdgeStone Capital Partners in Toronto.
From Reuters • Nov. 8, 2015
The ladies wrapped their pretty shoulders in furs, danced in Palter DeLiso slippers, got their divorces in Paris.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Palter not with me, Sir Scot—it were ill for thy safety," said the irritable monarch.
From The Talisman by Scott, Walter, Sir
Palter, pawl′tėr, v.i. to trifle in talk: to use trickery: to dodge: to shuffle: to equivocate.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
"Palter with us in a double sense" is the famous expression in Macbeth, V, viii, 20, and it brings out clearly the meaning implicit in the term.
From The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by Black, Ebenezer Charlton
Vocabulary lists containing palter
The Tragedy of Macbeth
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"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" by Frederick Douglass
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"The Tragedy of Macbeth," Vocabulary from Act 5
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