[Fr.] Pretentious falsehood, ‘humbug.’
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev. (1857), II. III. V. vi. 313. The largest, most inspiring piece of blague manufactured, for some centuries.
1865. Day of Rest, Oct., 580. That is all blague.
1886. Huxley, in Pall Mall Gaz., 13 April, 13/2. It believes in shibboleths and sentimental blague.
