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A speech that wore a tuxedo and rehearsed in the mirror first.
means A formal, carefully crafted public speech delivered with rhetorical polish on a weighty occasion.
from From Latin oratio, meaning speech or prayer, from orare, to plead or to speak — the same root that gave us orator and, fittingly, oracle.
Funeral famePericles and Lincoln immortalized the funeral oration.
Roman trainingCicero turned oratory into Rome's deadliest weapon.
Five partsClassical orations followed a strict five-stage structure.