tour de basque

French

Noun

tour de basque ? (tour de basque)

1. (archaic) deception, clever trick, legerdemain, sleight of hand

References

• “basque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• Cotgrave, Randle (1611) “Basque”, in A dictionarie of the French and English tongues, A.Islip