Crossword-Solution: PERSIFLEUR
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Persifleur | n. | One who indulges in persiflage; a banterer; a quiz. |
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| FACETIOUS person | 36 answers |
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Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
ENE
Hint 3 another clue
AND STILL ___
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Sentences with PERSIFLEUR (5)
There were a dozen Albert de Chantonnays, fierce or tender, gay or sad, a poet or a soldier--a light persifleur, who had passed through the mill, and had emerged hard and shining, or a young man of soul, capable of high ideals.
Such things have not been possible in English since Swift, and the _persifleur_ Heine cannot offer the same excuse of savage cynicism that might be pleaded for the Irishman.
However, the _persifleur_ declares they were ciphers "en société," adding no value to the number, and to which their learned writings bear no reference.
The French are by nature a kindly people, with this one proviso, that, though every Frenchman on earth is more or less a _persifleur_, you must never practise the art upon himself.
And so we parted, and he fell to denouncing me as a traitor and a _persifleur_, who would preach monarchy or republicanism, according to which sounded better in the sentence.