lapsus linguae
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Reminded that technically the war was over for Russia, Kisselev confessed a "lapsus linguae."
From Time Magazine Archive
Afterward Mr. Colfax, who was a noted speaker, told me that whenever he made a lapsus linguae, if it amused the audience he never attempted to correct it.
From Memories of a Musical Life by William Mason
Even a lapsus linguae, "you uns." was unmistakable amidst the high-flown periods.
From Una Of The Hill Country 1911 by Mary Noailles Murfree
Miss Sallianna wound up by saying, that it would be an affair of rare and opprobrious interest; and, as a comedy, would be positively deleterious, which was probably a lapsus linguae for "delicious."
From The Last of the Foresters Or, Humors on the Border; A story of the Old Virginia Frontier by John Esten Cooke
Even a lapsus linguae, "you uns," was unmistakable amidst the high-flown periods.
From The Raid of The Guerilla and Other Stories by Charles Egbert Craffock
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