brummagem

• “These picturesque rooms often contained "good finds" of the old Spanish furniture, and brass; but as a rule the dealers had long since bought up all the old things, replacing them by "brummagem," -- modern articles shining with cheap varnish.”

  Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders

• “In the laboratory there are no fustian ranks, no brummagem aristocracies, wrote Twain, putting it a bit more elegantly.”

  USA Today: How some politicians stumble on science

• “The brummagem politician ... oh, wait ... that would be redundant, wouldn't it?”

  snow gophers, plus...

• “They name these brummagem cabarets after Pullman cars.”

  The Beautiful and Damned

• “It was one of the type known as “tourist” cars, a sort of brummagem”

  The Beautiful and Damned

• “Twenty-seventh Street toward the river, near which he could just see a single patch of vivid green trees that guaranteed the brummagem umbrageousness of Riverside Drive.”

  The Beautiful and Damned

• “You find yourself scrutinizing famous romances for the sudden slip that bares the brummagem nature of it all.”

  The Way They Are

• “All of our cities are full of brummagem aristocrats -- aristocrats, at all events, in the view of their neighbours -- whose grandfathers, or even fathers, were day labourers; and working for them, supported by them, heavily patronized by them, are clerks whose grandfathers were lords of the soil.”

  The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind

• “To-day one must put him where he has begun to put himself - not among the literary artists of English, but among the brummagem prophets of England.”

  Prejudices : first series,

• “The things of capital importance are habitually discussed, not by men soberly trying to get at the truth about them, but by brummagem Great Thinkers trying only to get kudos of them.”

  Prejudices : first series,

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