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Triads

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Three subjects more or less connected formed into one continuous poem or subject: thus the Creation, Redemption, and Resurrection would form a triad. The conquest of England by the Romans, Saxons, and Normans would form a triad. Alexander the Great, Julius Cæsar, and Napoleon Bonaparte would form a triad. So would Law, Physic, and Divinity. The Welsh triads are collections of historic facts, mythological traditions, moral maxims, or rules of poetry disposed in groups of three.

 

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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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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
Tribune of the People (A)
Trice
Trick
Tricolour
Trieste