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charade
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
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2009
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cha·rade
/ shəˈrād/
• n.
an absurd pretense intended to create
a pleasant or respectable appearance: talk of unity was nothing more
than a charade. ∎ (charades) a
game in which players guess a word or phrase from pantomimed clues.
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Revamped Charade puts on brave new face
Newspaper article from: The Press; 7/17/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...has recently restyled and upgraded its Charade range. DAVE MOORE drives the 1.5...surprisingly brisk performer. The Daihatsu Charade lost a lot of its personality when it...its 1.3 litre and 1 litre units, the Charade has even become something of a performance...
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Daihatsu Charade redefines affordable luxury: 1989 line features lower prices and a 3-yr-36,000-mile 'bumper-to-bumper' warranty. (Daihatsu America Inc.)
PR Newswire; 9/30/1988; 700+ words
; DAIHATSU CHARADE REDEFINES AFFORDABLE LUXURY: 1989 LINE...range for the world-class 1989 model Charade lineup, it was announced today by C...operating officer. Moreover, all 1989 Charade models are covered by Daihatsu's comprehensive...
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Nineteenth Century Charade Dramas: Syllables of Gentility and Sociability
Magazine article from: Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film; 7/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...success of the charade in England. The poetical charades are the earliest...siblings traded charades. Cassandra Elizabeth Austen's brief charade, Baronet, is...preface to Original Charades observes, 'But the charade is only a complication...
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Basic Charades' Simple Gestures
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/14/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...cylinder, three-door 1992 Daihatsu Charade SE hatchback I drove before heading down...could hear the road quite clearly in the Charade SE. The crank windows sounded as if they...door, 16-valve, four-cylinder 1992 Charade SX! That was Cafe Noir! I could listen...
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Triple appeal; DAIHATSU CHARADE
Newspaper article from: The Press; 4/26/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...DAVE MOORE welcomes the three-cylinder Charade. More was probably less in the late...than it is now -- decided that its wee Charade could grow into four-cylinder power...cylinder engines in the 1970s, and the Charade unit was so highly thought of that Innocenti...
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The Bellamy charades.(William Bellamy, A Century of Charades, book)
Magazine article from: Word Ways; 2/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...some such timid charade as "court-ship...laws for writing charades in verse which is...answers to any of his charades. If people wrote...reply with another charade on the same keyword...include one or two charades of modern manufacture...pre> Bellamy Charade No. 222 Cleopatra...
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Answers to Bellamy's 500 charades.
Magazine article from: Word Ways; 2/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...answers to A Second Century of Charades are contained in Re-Open Sesame...supplying the answers to More Charades. A charade is created by partitioning a...lt;p>A Century of Charades 1 charade 2 chromo 3 purchase 4 elegant...
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Charade is a nifty little runabout.(Motoring)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (South Africa); 12/6/2007; 700+ words
; ...intersection... Daihatsu's Charade has no unnecessary garnishes...These added extras make the Charade a Celeb model as opposed to...fancy comparison we'll call it Charade - Supersized. All Charades are powered by the same 998cc...
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 "The Star (Amman, Jordan)")
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Cinerama : Charade.
Newspaper article from: The Star (Amman, Jordan); 11/27/2006; 700+ words
; By Mike Derderian Playing charade with Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in...Donen's 113-minute 1963 noir classic Charade is the best activity a person can do when bored or with time to kill. Charade does bust a person's brain but it does...
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First Daihatsu Charade automobiles arrive in U.S.
PR Newswire; 10/28/1987; 700+ words
; ...Charade will be offered in three models: the CLS (Standard Luxury Charade), the CLX (Xtra Luxury Charade) and the CSX (Xtra Sporty Charade). While all three Charades share the same engine, drive train and a lengthy list of quality standard...
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charade
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
charade , verbal, written, or acted...wrote many of the well-known charades, and a good description of the acted charade is found in Thackeray's Vanity Fair. In the United States a charade acted in pantomime and having...
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Hepburn, Audrey
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...Story, 1959; Best British Actress, British Academy, for Charade, 1964; Commander, Order of Arts and Letters, France, 1987...The Loudest Whisper ) (Wyler) (as Karen Wright) 1963 Charade (Donen) (as Reggie Lambert) 1964 Paris When It Sizzles...
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Vazquez, Yul
Book article from: Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television
...Floating Islands " and The Floating Islands ), Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, c. 1995. Celebrity Charades (also known as Celebrity Charades: LAByrinth Theater Company Benefit ), LAByrinth Theater Company, Daryl Roth Theatre, New York City...
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Hospital, Janette Turner
Book article from: Contemporary Novelists
...York, Dutton, and London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1985. Charades. St. Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 1988; NewYork...LINQ Magazine, (Queensland, Australia), 17(1) 1990; "Charades: Searching for Father Time: Memory and the Uncertainty Principle...
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Lewis, Crystal
Book article from: Contemporary Musicians
...solo album before her marriage, 1987’s Beyond the Charade. For the next five years she continued to release albums for...Blue Yonder, mid-1980s; released debut album, Beyond the Charade, 1987; actress in Roadhouse television series on the Nickelodeon...
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