brummagem
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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The audience descended safely, opened their eyes, found themselves once more in the brummagem Astor ballroom.
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Rosary-like, 202-page addenda to Author-Naturalist Peattie's An Almanac for Moderns, brummagem "classic."
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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.
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They name these brummagem cabarets after Pullman cars.
From The Beautiful and Damned by Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)