Word: mumbojumbo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
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