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prattlement

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English

Etymology

From prattle + -ment.

Noun

prattlement (usually uncountable, plural prattlements)

  1. prattle; childish chatter
    • April 1805, Francis Jeffrey, "The Lay of the Last Minstrel", in Edinburgh Review
      she had never listened to the prattlement of the river and mountain spirits

References

prattlement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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