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German
Etymology
Borrowed from French galimatias.
Pronunciation
Noun
Gallimathias m or n (strong, genitive Gallimathias, no plural)
- (formal, dated) galimatias
- Synonym: Gerede
1924, Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain], volume 2, Berlin: S. Fischer, page 384:Die Gesellschaft überließ sich einem seligen Nichtstun, indem sie ein zusammenhangloses Geschwätz tauschte, dessen Elemente bei jedem einzelnen aus erhöhtem Gefühle stammten und in irgendeinem Urzustande das Schönste versprochen hatten, aus denen aber auf dem Wege zur Mitteilung ein fragmentarisch-lippenlahmer, teils indiskreter, teils unverständlicher Gallimathias wurde, […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
Declension of Gallimathias
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