Chapter Trouble to Truth of T by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Truces Faithless and fatal truces.
   The Emperor Antonius Caracalla destroyed the citizens of Alexandria, at one time, and at another cut off the attendants of Artabanus, King of Persia, under colour of marrying his daughter.
   Jacob's children destroyed the Shechemites to avenge the rape of Dinah.
   Gallienus, the Roman Emperor, put to death the military men in Constantinople.
   Antonius, under colour of friendship, enticed Artavasdes of Armenia; then, binding him in heavy chains, put him to death.

Truchuela A very small trout with which Don Quixote was regaled at the road-side inn where he was dubbed knight. (Cervante: Don Quixote, bk. i. chap. ii.)

True Blue - that is, “Coventry blue,” noted for its fast dye. An epithet applied to a person of inflexible honesty and fidelity.

True-lovers' Knot is the Danish trolovelses knort, “a betrothment bond,” not a compound of true and lover. Thus in the Icelandic Gospel the phrase, “a virgin espoused to a man,” is, er trulofad var cinum mannë.

“Three times a true-love's knot I tie secure;
Firm be the knot, firm may his love endure.”
Gay's Pastorals: The Spell.

True as Touch The reference is to gold tested by the touchstone (q.v.).

“If thou lovest me too much
It will not prove as true as touch.”
Love me Little, Love me Long (1570).

True Thomas and the Queen of Elfland An old romance in verse by Thomas the Rhymer.
   True Thomas. Thomas the Rhymer was so called from his prophecies, the most noted of which was the prediction of the death of Alexander III. of Scotland, made to the Earl of March in the Castle of Dunbar the day before it occurred. It is recorded in the Scotichronicon of Fordun. (1430.) (See Rhymer.)

Truepenny Hamlet says to the Ghost, “Art thou there, Truepenny?” Then to his comrades, “You hear this fellow in the cellarage?” (i. 5). And again, “Well said, old mole; canst work?” Truepenny means carth-borer or mole (Greek, trupanon, trupao, to bore or perforate), an excellent word to apply to a ghost “boring through the cellarage” to get to the place of purgatory before cock-crow. Miners use the word for a run of metal or metallic earth, which indicates the presence and direction of a lode.

Trulli Female spirits noted for their kindness to men. (Randle Holms: Academy of Armory.)

Trump To trump up. To devise or make up falsely; to concoct.

Trump Card The French carte de triomphe (card of triumph).

Trumpet To trumpet one's good deeds. The allusion is to the Pharisaic sect called the Almsgivers, who had a trumpet sounded before them, ostensibly to summon the poor together, but in reality to publish abroad their abnegation and benevolence.
   You sound your own trumpet. The allusion is to heralds, who used to announce with a flourish of trumpets the knights who entered a list.

Trumpeter Your trumpeter is dead - i.e. you are obliged to sound your own praises because no one will do it for you.

Trumpets (Feast of). A Jewish festival, held on the first two days of Tisri, the beginning of the ecclesiastical year.

Trundle A military earthwork above Goodwood. The area is about two furlongs. It has a double vallum. The situations of the portæ are still to be traced in the east, west, and north. The fortifications of the ancient Britons being circular, it is probable that the Trundle is British. The fortified encampments of the Romans were square; examples may be seen at the Broyle, near Chichester, and on Ditching Hill.