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Interlard N Mix Embellishments One's Speech Writing Taylor

Word interlard
Definition n. To mix (embellishments) into one's speech or writing.
Sentence Taylor once offered to give lessons in a concocted ‘Utopian’ language, and he spoofed the pretensions of scholarly apparatus by interlarding his work with bogus references, fake bibliographies, and citations from ‘Books which I never read.’
Source The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, Jonathan Rose

Tags: language::english, topic::vocabulary

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