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Date: 1700-1800
Language: French
Origin: Old French verbier 'to talk a lot', from verbe; VERB

verbiage

 noun
     
ver‧bi‧age [uncountable] formal
speech or writing that has many unnecessary words in it:
meaningless verbiage
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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