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| Date: | 1700-1800 |
| Language: | French |
| Origin: | Provençal charrado 'conversation' |
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cha‧rade
1 a game in which one person uses actions and no words to show the meaning of a word or phrase, and other people have to guess what it is
charades
[uncountable]DG2 [countable] a situation in which people behave as though something is true or serious, when it is not really true : Unless more money is given to schools, all this talk of improving education is just a charade.
Unless more money is given to schools, all this talk of improving education is just a charade.