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Examples
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But they do have their moments, with epigrammatic non sequiturs of Firbankian flair and a delightfully inane religious service broadcast on the radio.
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But they do have their moments, with epigrammatic non sequiturs of Firbankian flair and a delightfully inane religious service broadcast on the radio.
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Irish, she had a Firbankian wit and a lovely turn of phrase.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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A little sniping was inevitable: the young reporter from the Architects’ Journal jeered at Osterley’s floodlit façade for looking like a filmset (‘flat as painted plywood’), and the gala evening itself as a surfeit of brittle chatter (‘like the trained sibilance of supers’) which he proceeded to satirise in approved Firbankian style: ‘Of course, it’s madly Adam.’
Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009
vanishedone commented on the word Firbankian
Not the best of usage examples.
The O.E.D. says this has to do with one Ronald Firbank.
November 17, 2009