Английский Этимологический словарь - charade
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~ n 1 charades a game in which one person acts the meaning of a word or phrase and the others have to guess what it is 2 a situation in which people pretend that something is true and behave as if it were true, when everyone knows it is not really true (Their marriage is an empty charade, continued only for the sake of the children.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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(charades) 1. If you describe someone’s actions as a charade, you mean that their actions are so obviously false that they do not convince anyone. I wondered why he had gone through the elaborate charade... The UN at the moment is still trying to maintain the charade of neutrality. N-COUNT: usu sing c darkgreen]disapproval 2. Charades is a game for teams of players in which one team acts a word or phrase, syllable by syllable, until other players guess the whole word or phrase. N-UNCOUNT ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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noun Etymology: French, from Occitan charrado chat, from charra to chat, chatter Date: 1776 1. a word represented in riddling verse or by picture, tableau, or dramatic action 2. plural a game in which some of the players try to guess a word or phrase from the actions of another player who may not speak 3. an empty or deceptive act or pretense his concern was a ~ ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. 1 a (usu. in pl., treated as sing.) a game of guessing a word from a written or acted clue given for each syllable and for the whole. b one such clue. 2 an absurd pretence. Etymology: F f. mod.Prov. charrado conversation f. charra chatter ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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