"jugglery" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: juggleries [plural]
Etymology: From Old French juglerie, jouglerie, from jouglere (“juggler”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|fro|juglerie}} Old French juglerie, {{m|fro|jouglerie}} jouglerie, {{m|fro|jouglere||juggler}} jouglere (“juggler”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} jugglery (countable and uncountable, plural juggleries)
  1. (now rare) Witchcraft, sorcery; magical trickery, legerdemain. Tags: archaic, countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-jugglery-en-noun-2yEs6aZA Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 87 13
  2. (by extension) Trickery or deception in general, or an instance of such. Tags: broadly, countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-jugglery-en-noun-K6ek5Vll
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: juggling

Inflected forms

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