Lexicographical Neighbors of Persiflages
Literary usage of Persiflages
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Marion Fay: A Novel by Anthony Trollope (1882)
"The persiflages had taken the matter up very strongly, so that they may have been
said to have become George Roden's special patrons or protectors. ..."
2. Oeuvres Complètes de Alfred de Musset by Alfred de Musset, Paul de Musset (1866)
"... avec tes persiflages, Ou je vais tout à l'heure en finir avec toi. Veux-tu
faire la paix? Je ne suis pas boudeuse. Voyons, viens m'embrasser. FRANK. ..."
3. Pamphlets by William Tod Helmuth (1851)
"Most of the authors who penned these rhetorical persiflages are no more (God rest
their souls), but their words are still in existence ; I bring them ..."
4. Transactions (1889)
"I was but a boy then, and long has the book been closed. Most of the authors who
penned these rhetorical persiflages ..."
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