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legerdemains

legerdemains is the plural of legerdemain.

Meaning of legerdemain

Noun

legerdemain (usually uncountable, plural legerdemains)

  1. (usually) Sleight of hand; "magic" trickery.
    • For he in slights and jugling feates did flow, / And of legierdemayne the mysteries did know.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. (broadly, usually) A show of skill or deceitful ability.
    • Certainly, that they are to this day so rife in Italy and Spain, and so scant in Britain, is a shrewd ground to apprehend Legerdemain, and forgery, in the accounts we get of their later Saints.1673, Gilbert Burnet, The mystery of iniquity unvailed, London, page 128

Questions about legerdemains

What is legerdemains the plural of?
Legerdemains is the plural of legerdemain.

Words near legerdemains in the dictionary

  1. leger line
  2. leger lines
  3. legerdemain
  4. legerdemainist
  5. legerdemainists
  6. legerdemains
  7. Legere
  8. legered
  9. Legeres
  10. legering
  11. legerities

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