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Trenchmore

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A popular dance in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

“Nimble-heeled mariners … capering . . sometimes a Morisco, or Trenchmore of forty miles long.”—Taylor the Water-Poet.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Trees
Tregeagle
Tregetour
Tremont
Trench-the-Mer
Trencher
Trencher Cap
Trencher Friends
Trencher Knight
Trenchmore
Tressure
Trèves
Trevéthy Stone
Tria Juncta in Uno
Triads
Trials at Bar
Triamond
Triangles
Triangular Part of Man (The)
Tribune