Trenchmore
.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.