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trumpery

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"Showy trinkets"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /ˈtɹʌmpəɹi/Part of speech nounSorted emprrtuyStarts with TEnds with Y1 clues
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Definitions

  1. ornamental objects of no great value

Word origin

From Middle English trompery, from Middle French tromperie (“deceit”).

Used in a sentence

  • I have ſold all my Tromperie: not a counterfeit Stone, not a Ribbon, Glaſſe, Pomander, Browch, Table-booke, Ballad, Knife, Tape, Gloue, Shooe-tye, Bracelet, Horne-Ring, to keepe my Pack from faſting: […]
  • PROSPERO.^([To Ariel]) / This was well done, my bird. / Thy shape invisible retain thou still: / The trumpery in my house, go bring it hither / For stale to catch these thieves.
  • Now upon the coming of Chriſt, very much, tho' not all, of this idolatrous Trumpery and Superſtition was driven out of the World: […]

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