brummagem

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To the feeble hope, ordinarily, of some sort of brummagem Utopia of creature-comforts, characterized by equality of condition, uniformity of life and thought, pervasive state regulation and the obliteration of traditional morality.

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Theatre needs all the expert make-up and massage that Playwrights Bolton & Maugham know how to apply, all the stage presence and vivacity that Cornelia Otis Skinner brings to the role of the brummagem heroine.

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More than that, she has lived a life so rich in history that, by comparison, the attractive twentysomethings the Food Network so desperately wants to turn into stars seem like brummagem pretenders.

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The audience descended safely, opened their eyes, found themselves once more in the brummagem Astor ballroom.

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But our New York brummagem “duchesses” of yesterday are less liberal in their condescensions.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)