Persiflage

Persiflage, of the sort that obtains among young things of the human kind, flew back and forth.

CHAPTER III 2010

She also has served on the Editorial Board of a upcoming anthology by Persiflage Press, and is currently completing three books: Snapshots, a book of short form poetry; Under Mt. Alban, poems of Oaxaca, Mexico; and THE LAST TRUMPET – A poetic drama about the Great Flood of Orleans, circa 2005 A.D., including the activities of the Devil Himself as well as the famous Baron.

dorothy terry | toujours couture « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2007

They were the good-looking, whip-smart, thoroughly inept young guys 'n' gals for whom reconstituting the newly-invaded Iraq was a total freakin 'goof, a lark delivering both a paycheck and some desert cred they could wave in the face of Cardwell and Persiflage and all their other chums at the dinner parties back in Georgetown.

Ellis Weiner: Heckuva Job, Palie 2008

Persiflage, which he secretly envied in others, on his own lips went off like damp fireworks.

Star-Dust Fannie Hurst 1928

Persiflage, of the sort that obtains among young things of the human kind, flew back and forth.

The Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London 1916

"Persiflage and all that aside, why don't you take a stab at politics?"

Captivating Mary Carstairs Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905

Persiflage of this sort did not appear to be accomplishing anything.

The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Holman Day 1900

Persiflage, of the sort that obtains among young things of the human kind, flew back and forth.

The Little Lady of the Big House Jack London 1896

"Of corse he will," said the hairy boy to the right of Whomsoever J. Opper, who afterwards became the father of a lad who grew up to be editor of the Persiflage column of the _Atlantic Monthly_.

Comic History of the United States Bill Nye 1873

Persiflage, I suppose, even in ordinary life, is much less easy to practise with perfect success than a graver and less artificial mode of speaking, though, perhaps for that very reason, it is apt to be more sought after: the persiflage of a writer of another nation and of a past age is of necessity peculiarly difficult to realize and reproduce.

The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry 65 BC-8 BC Horace 1847