The Devil's Dictionary: Peroration

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
PERIPATETIC
PERSEVERANCE

PERORATION

-n.

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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