Definitions for legerdemains

legerdemains leg·er·de·main

Spelling: [lej-er-duh-meyn]
IPA: /ˌlɛdʒ ər dəˈmeɪn/

Legerdemains is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 1963 anagrams from letters in legerdemains (adeeegilmnrs).

Definitions for legerdemains

noun

  1. sleight of hand.
  2. trickery; deception.
  3. any artful trick.

Origin of legerdemains

1400-50; late Middle English legerdemeyn, lygarde de mayne Middle French: literally, light of hand

Examples for legerdemains

I admire it as a splendid piece of legerdemain; but it expresses nothing.

You would do, by a piece of legerdemain, what you have not the courage to attempt openly.

A touch of legerdemain and my sword has passed into my left hand.

legerdemain had scared him some and made him both suspicious and wary.

Astonishing feats of preparation were consummated as if by legerdemain.

Winchester lay the fewest of miles away, but somewhere there was legerdemain.

Priests, however, tolerate no rivals, and permit no legerdemain but their own.

This title swings him into full view, stripped of all deception and legerdemain.

Conjuror has since become a name for a professor of legerdemain or sleight-of-hand.

A correspondence school course in legerdemain, Steven explained.

Word Value for legerdemains
Scrable

15

Words with friends

19

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