World War I officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on 28 June 1919
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hoodwink![Audio Pronunciation]() \HOOD-wink\
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verb
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to deceive by false appearance : dupe
A now-obsolete sense of the word "wink" is "to close one's eyes," and
"hoodwink" once meant to cover the eyes of someone, such as a prisoner,
with a hood or blindfold. ("Hoodwink" was also once a name for the game
of blindman's buff.) This 16th-century term soon came to be used
figuratively for veiling the truth. "The Public is easily hood-winked,"
wrote the Irish physician Charles Lucas in 1756, by which time the
figurative use had been around for almost a century and a half. Over two
hundred and fifty years later, this meaning of the word hasn't changed a
wink.
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