英语词汇persiflage的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	persiflage
词源	persiflage. “Upon these delicate occasions you must practice the ministerial shrugs and persiflage,” Lord Chesterfield wrote in one of his famous Letters (1774) to his natural son Philip Stanhope. This is the first recorded use of persiflage, “light friv- olous talk or banter,” which Chesterfield may have coined from the French persifler, “to banter.”
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