legerdemain
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- n an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
- The movie was an extravaganza put together with some clever digital legerdemain.
- Great magicians use complicated legerdemain to fool their audiences.
- What neither of those times possessed was the technological legerdemain that enables Brad Pitt to play Benjamin, through computer effects work (and old-fashioned makeup), for most .