semblant
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Je vous conterai ce que c'est, lorsque je vous reverrai; cependant je ne ferai semblant de rien, car j'en ai besoin pour l'étude de l'élocution française.
From Books and Characters French and English by Strachey, Giles Lytton
Mais la coustume est l telle des cheualliers que font a mainte dame semblant de telles choses dont a gueres ne leur est au cueur.”
From Lancelot of the Laik A Scottish Metrical Romance by Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William)
And therewith he made semblant to strike off his head.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir
Sir Tristram made semblant as he had been sorry, and better knew he how it was than the king.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir
She meeteth Lancelot and saluteth him and maketh him right great joy, of semblant.
From The High History of the Holy Graal by Evans, Sebastian