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Webster 1913 Edition

Badinage

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Baˊdiˊnage′

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Noun.

[F., fr.

badiner

to joke, OF. to trifle, be silly, fr.

badin

silly.]

Playful raillery; banter.

“He . . . indulged himself only in an elegant badinage.”

Warburton.

Webster 1828 Edition

Badinage

BAD'INAGE

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Noun.

Light or playful discourse.