OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 5906

legerdemain

/ˌlɛd͡ʒ.ə.dɨˈmeɪn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
escamoteo • prestidigitación
Sleight of hand; "magic" trickery.
For he in slights and jugling feates did flow, / And of legierdemayne the mysteries did know.
[…] A deliberate man with infinite resources of patience, he was content to progress by easy stages toward the millennium. Some private legerdemain must have reconciled him to the…
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