1. What does Chicane mean? To resort to tricks or subterfuges; use Chicanery

2. The Blackmailers might be a twenty-first-century police procedural, except for the nineteenth-century morality, and the detective's penchant for quirky disguises and elaborate subterfuges

3. There was also an agreement as to selling prices , which , however , did not work , as members resorted to various subterfuges to circumvent it , creating bitterness and ill - will in the process .