Chapter Tribulation to Tripe of T by Brewer's Readers Handbook

He is just polite enough to be able to be very unmannerly, with a great deal of good breeding; is just handsome enough to make him excessively vain of his person; and has just reflection enough to finish him for a coxcomb; qualifications…very common among …men of quality.—Colman: The Jealous Wife, ii. 3 (1761).

Trinobants, people of Trinobantium, that is, Middlesex and Essex, Their chief town was Trinovant, now London.

So eastward where by Thames the Trinobants were set,
To Trinovant their town…That London now we term…
The Saxons…their east kingdom called [Essex].
   —Drayton: Polyolbion, xvi. (1613).

Trinovant, London, the chief town of the Trinobantes; called in fable, “Troja Nova.” (See Troynovant.)

Trinquet, one of the seven attendants of Fortunio. His gift was that he could drink a river and be dry again. “Are you always thirsty?” asked Fortunio. “No,” said the man, “only after eating salt meat, or upon a wager.”—Comtesse D’Aulnoy: Fairy Tales (“Fortunio,” 1682).

Trip to Scarborough (A), a comedy by Sheridan (1777), based on The Relapse, by Vanbrugh (1697). (For the tale, see Foppington, p. 381.)—A Trip to Scarborough.

Tripe , the nickname of Mrs. Hamilton, of Covent Garden Theatre (1730–1788).

Mrs. Hamilton, being hissed, came forward and said, “German and ladies, I s’pose as how you hiss me because I wouldn’t play at Mrs. Bellamy’s benefit. I would have done so, but she said as how my audience were all tripe people.” When the fair speechifier got thus far, the pit roared out, “Well said, Mrs. Tripe!” a title she retained till she quitted the theatre.—Memoir of Mrs. Hamilton (1803).