(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:01:43

Ba`di`nage" (?), n. [F., fr. badiner to joke, OF. to trifle, be silly, fr. badin silly.]

Playful raillery; banter.

"He . . . indulged himself only in an elegant badinage."

Warburton.

 

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