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Meaning of griffonage | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
/ˈɡrɪfəˌnɑːʒ/

Definitions

Careless handwriting; a crude or illegible scrawl.

countable, rare, uncountable

Examples

“"We hastened to pack up our ‘trumpery’..and among the rest, my six hundred pages of griffonage."”
“There was a heap of little crumpled bills which, with Felicie's griffonage, Helen had thrown into her table-drawer.”
“He gave a sort of passport, a συμβολον ξενικον, authenticated with such a portentous griffonage as would have done credit to Ali Pacha.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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