trumperies

Quarrelsome drosky drivers, incongruous mills, and the thousand trumperies of the place, were all forgotten in the perfect beauty of the scene — in the full, the joyous realisation of my ideas of Niagara.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

And their house was not a gypsy caravan of trumperies and trinkets to protect it from the evil eye.

Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006

Olympus — dazzlingly melancholy, and ‘humano major’ among the meannesses and trumperies of earth.

Wylder's Hand 2003

Is it not better to hear their controversy from their own mouths whilst they are face to face before us, than to read these vile fopperies, which are nothing but trumperies, deceits, diabolical cozenages of Cepola, pernicious slights and subversions of equity?

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Is it not better to hear their controversy from their own mouths whilst they are face to face before us, than to read these vile fopperies, which are nothing but trumperies, deceits, diabolical cozenages of Cepola, pernicious slights and subversions of equity?

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

And some there are among them that put off their trumperies at vast rates, yet rove up and down for the bread they eat; nay, there is scarce an inn, wagon, or ship into which they intrude not, to the no small damage of the commonwealth of beggars.

In Praise of Folly c. 1466-1536 1958

France, all laden with rings and brooches and such trumperies like your

The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages James Branch Cabell 1918

Formerly there were the village constable, the district clerk, trumperies, requisitions, and taxations; for then it was the gentry who were the guardians.

Tales of the Wilderness Boris Pilniak 1915

Elizabeth Agnus Deis are frequently mentioned among other "popish trumperies" the importation of which into England was rigorously forbidden.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

Is it in the whitewashing of the battlements, the mending of the roads, the fountains, and all such trumperies?

The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 1 384 BC-322 BC Demosthenes 1912