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CHICANE , the pettifogging subterfuge and delay of See also:

sharp See also:law-practitioners, also any deliberate See also:attempt to gain unfair See also:advantage by See also:petty tricks. A more See also:common See also:English See also:form, of the word is " chicanery." " Chicane " is technically used also as a See also:term in the See also:game of See also:bridge for the points a player may See also:score if he holds no trumps. The word is See also:French, derived either from chaugan, See also:Persian for the stick used in the game of " See also:polo," still played on See also:foot and called chicane in See also:Languedoc (the military use of chicaner, to take advantage of slight See also:variations in ground,. suits this derivation), or from See also:chic, meaning little or petty, from the See also:Spanish chico, small, which appears in the phrase "chic chic," little by little.

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