Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That which serves only to fill up space; filling; padding: used specifically in literary and musical criticism.
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Pour ceux que ça intéresse, je suis également en train de mettre sur pied le World Wide Paperwork and Administrivia Day, qui sera consacré chacun de son côté, là à avancer dans le triage de paperasse, le remplissage de formulaires administratifs, les coups de fils qui attendent depuis des plombes, le triage des quittances à envoyer au comptable… bref, vous voyez l’idée.
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"'Every one,' my dear fellow, is too much to say, for the world's full of the crudest _remplissage_.
The Tragic Muse Henry James 1879
avivamagnolia commented on the word remplissage
~ filling or padding used in music and literature
January 18, 2009
mtc commented on the word remplissage
Leave it to the French! An elegant word for stuffing or padding especially appropriate as we approach one of our national days of gastronomic excess here in the U.S., namely Thanksgiving.
November 20, 2012