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Definition of Peroration

Peripatetic
Peripatetic
  PERORATION   noun
The explosion of an oratorical rocket.  It dazzles, but to an observer having the wrong kind of nose its most conspicuous peculiarity is the smell of the several kinds of powder used in preparing it.
 

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The Devil's Dictionary
by Ambrose Bierce, 1911

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