Legerdemain | Word Legerdemain at Open Dictionary of English by LearnThat Foundation

I need hardly add that these cards are specially treated against any kind of legerdemain, which is superfluous in any case since they will be machine-shuffled.
It's the levity that helps to keep us afloat, the magic that gives us lightness of touch -- what the French call legerdemain -- grace under pressure, wonder, and hope.
Stewart's question reveals both a gap in his education and a laudable ability to spot legerdemain which is a pretty good cement for such educational gaps.
When art shall be annexed to beauty, when wiles and guiles shall concur; for to speak as it is, love is a kind of legerdemain; mere juggling, a fascination.

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