Wordie: Persiflage: Comments

Comment by Senescal, about 1 year ago

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 08:58:26 +0000

Mentioned in Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Mikado": Act II, scene 8. Ko-Ko: "Is this a time for airy persiflage?"

Comment by slumry, about 1 year ago

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:23:54 +0000

I recall first hearing this phrase in the jocular "superfluous persiflage," as in "Cut the superfluous persiflage and get back to work."

Something like idle chitchat

Comment by Grammar, about 1 year ago

Mon, 28 May 2007 07:36:21 +0000

Page 54 of Life With Jeeves by Wodehouse.

Comment by brtom, about 1 year ago

Sat, 09 Dec 2006 12:51:08 +0000

The time straying toward infidelity and confections and persiflage he withholds by steady faith. Preface 1855