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, 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 no question of the dim Beyond; Cut loose the bark; such voyage itself is rest; Majestic motion, unimpeded scope, A widening heaven, a current without care.
From The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics by Knowles, Frederic Lawrence
"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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