brummagem
Example Sentences
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The outside of the car features leaded windows, cream panels, false brickwork and fake timbers, and the motif of brummagem antiquity is carried on inside.
From Time Magazine Archive
The audience descended safely, opened their eyes, found themselves once more in the brummagem Astor ballroom.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rosary-like, 202-page addenda to Author-Naturalist Peattie's An Almanac for Moderns, brummagem "classic."
From Time Magazine Archive
Climax of the whole brummagem business was the "Zoro Gardens."
From Time Magazine Archive
That was what the precious metals—they alone—could afford to be; it was vain enough for him accordingly to try to impart a gloss to his own comparative brummagem.
From The Wings of the Dove, Volume II by James, Henry
