WOtD: Legerdemain

The word is “Legerdemain”. It is a noun.

OED definitions include:

1. Sleight of hand; the performance of tricks which by nimble action deceive the eye; jugglery; conjuring tricks.
2. Trickery, deception, hocus-pocus.
   • a) transf. and fig. Trickery, deception, hocus-pocus.
   • b) An instance of this; a trick, a juggle. Obs.

3. A sleight-of-hand performer, a conjurer. Obs. rare

4. attrib. or as adj. Pertaining to or of the nature of legerdemain or jugglery; juggling; tricky.