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Triʹvia

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Goddess of streets and ways. Gay has a poem in three books so entitled.

“Thou, Trivia, aid my song.

Through spacious streets conduct thy bard along …

To pave thy realm, and smooth the broken ways,

Earth from her womb a flinty tribute pays.”


Gay: Trivia, bk. i.

 

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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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Trinoda Necessitas
Tripitaka means the “triple basket,”
Triple Alliance
Tripos
Trismegistus [thrice greatest]
Tristram (Sir)
Triton
Triumph
Trivet
Trivia
Trivial
Trivium
Troehilus (The)
Troglodytes
Troilus
Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare)
Trois pour Cent
Trojan
Trojan War (The)
Trolls