Word: mumbojumbo
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...show ends with an impressive pseudo-Turkish ceremony--things Turkish were all the vogue in Moliere's day. It features a lot of amusingly nonsensical mumbojumbo, which served Moliere as a kind of trial test for the consummate macaronic Latin in the final scene of his last masterpiece, Le malade imaginaire...
When the Allies liberated Albania from the "Enemy Powers," it seemed best for the Albanian MUMBOJUMBO to be known as "President"; but Signor Benito Mussolini has recently made Albania safe for autocracy, by extending a sphere of influence over it and encouraging Ahmed Bey Zogu to assume at least the title of "Prince...
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