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Word of the Day (Friday October 10, 2008)
legerdemain \lej-ur-duh-MAIN\, noun:
Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/854PL
1. Sleight of hand.
2. A display of skill, trickery, or artful deception.
We are inclined to regard the treatment of [paradoxes] . . . as a
mere legerdemain of words.
-- Benjamin Jowett, Dialogues of Plato
Their alleged legerdemain at the blackjack table and roulette
wheel of the luxurious Salle Anglaise was caught on closed-circuit
television.
-- "Double dealing puts Monte Carlo in a spin", Daily Telegraph,
February 23, 1997
There is a certain knack or legerdemain in argument.
-- Shaftesbury, Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times
Legerdemain is from Old French leger de main, literally "light of
hand": leger, "light" + de, "of" + main, "hand."
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