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.
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).