brummagem

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Climax of the whole brummagem business was the "Zoro Gardens."

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

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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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W. "SHIBBOLETHS" LILLY—delivered an excellent lecture on the Papal-Italian question, and although at Birmingham, it was by no means a brummagem discourse.

From Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, March 12, 1892 by Various