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‖ tracasserie|trakasri|
[Fr., f. tracasser to bustle, worry oneself: see -ery.]
A state of disturbance or annoyance; a turmoil, bother, fuss; an embroilment, petty quarrel. (Chiefly in pl.)
1656[see prec.]. 1658Phillips, Tracasserie (French), a needlesse hurrying, or restlesse travelling up and down. 1715in P. M. Thornton Stuart Dynasty (1890) App. i. 353, I am of your opinion that to avoid tracassaries one should let the different correspondences take their course. 1812Scott Let. to Miss J. Baillie 17 Jan., in Lockhart, A wonderful man..acquainted with all the intrigues and tracasseries of the cabinets. 1833T. Hook Parson's Dau. i. vii, Adept as she was in all the tracasseries of flirtation. 1879Mrs. E. Lynn Linton in Life xvi. (1901) 219 Life seems to me empty of all but tracasseries. |