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plural of charade examples
uncountable
A game in which each player acts out a word or phrase, usually based on puns of each syllable and without speaking, for the others to guess. quotations examples
[…] it looked like a house where they played charades, where there would be long streamers of evergreen and dozens of wreaths of holly at Christmas-time, where there were tearful, happy weddings and great throwings of rice after little brides […]
1909, Booth Tarkington, Beasley's Christmas Party