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mountebankery
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mountebankery
Mountebankery \Mount"e*bank`er*y\, n. The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
Wiktionary
mountebankery
n. The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
Usage examples of "mountebankery".
It is thus, indeed, that the whole white-slave mountebankery has been launched, with its gaudy fictions and preposterous alarms.
Much was required of him in a world where a high fantastical acrobatic mountebankery was almost a matter of ceremony, where riders stand on their heads in passing their rivals and cooks punt a casserole over their heads to the wall behind by way of giving notice: much was required of him and he proved worthy.