All 3 Uses of
banter
in
The Age of Innocence
- As he came out into the lobby Archer ran across his friend Ned Winsett, the only one among what Janey called his "clever people" with whom he cared to probe into things a little deeper than the average level of club and chop-house banter.†
Chpt 14 *
- It was, in fact, that which, with a secret fatuity, he had watched Mrs. Thorley Rushworth play toward a fond and unperceiving husband: a smiling, bantering, humouring, watchful and incessant lie.†
Chpt 31
- But Archer, meeting his eyes, saw the filial light under their banter.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(banter) casual conversation that is clever and amuses; or to engage in such conversation