bavardage
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun Idle talk; chatter
Examples
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We know that our political sphere is healthy when, first, everyone who wants to be a "participant in government" can in fact have access to it; and second, when the talk that takes place there is viewed not as mere bavardage or spin, but as one of the chief and most valuable expressions of public liberty.
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Representative assemblies are often taunted by their enemies with being places of mere talk and bavardage.
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Though bavardage accounted for much of the general knowledge of every one's affairs, there was an uncanny mystery in the speed at which a particular secret spread.
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The sentimental bavardage of boys in love will be lost upon me.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 447 Volume 18, New Series, July 24, 1852
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Philosophically speaking, this is what Kierkegaard called idle talk, snakke in Danish; what Heidegger called Gerede; what Sartre called bavardage.
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“P.S. To prevent bavardage, I prefer going in person to sending my servant with a letter.
Note
The word 'bavardage' comes ultimately from a French word meaning 'saliva, drool'.
