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Encyclopedia Britannica



CHICANE

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 126 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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


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