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Chicane

noun

A bridge hand that is void of trumps.

A movable barrier used in motor racing; sometimes placed before a dangerous corner to reduce speed as cars pass in single file.

The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them). Synonyms: chicanery, guile, shenanigan, trickery, wile.

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"Chicane" Quotes from Famous Books

... Common Law; which he did with so great Applause, that at Three Years End he merited the Degree of Doctor. His Father designing to surrender to him his Place of Counsellor of Parliament, sent for him home: But the young Gentleman was soon tired with the Chicane of the Bar, and plung'd himself deep in the Studies of [Footnote: Les belles Lettres.] Humanity and the Roman Laws; for which he had a wonderful Inclination. He happen'd to be a frequent Spectator of the Protestants ...

— Franco-Gallia • Francis Hotoman

... if they underwent such treatment without injury, she held them innocent. Another device was the oath. The parties went to the Church altar and swore their innocence or the justice of their cause. But all these methods gave room for chicane. Kings and knights protested that the oath led to indiscriminate perjury, that if the priests' hands were tickled with money the hot iron was only painted, and that a suitable fee could render the boiling liquid innocuous to the skin ...

— Flowers of Freethought - (Second Series) • George W. Foote

... permitted, and, indeed, sometimes ordered, very much like the duel in the land of France. Why not such a combat, because the test was an honest if barbaric tribute to plain manliness? Give me that rather than the snivel, the chicane, the shake-you-by-the-hand and stab-you-in-the-gloaming, which passes by the name of diplomacy, ...

— The Black Colonel • James Milne

Words linked to "Chicane" : trounce, beat out, fraudulence, deceit, deception, dissimulation, object, dissembling, trickery, vanquish, bridge hand, jugglery, humbug, fraud, dupery, wile, crush, hoax, shell, beat, put-on, movable barrier