I have ſold all my Tromperie: not a counterfeit Stone, not a Ribbon, Glaſſe, Pomander, Browch, Table-booke, Ballad, Knife, Tape, Gloue, Shooe-tye, Bracelet, Horne-Ring, to keepe my Pack from faſting: […]
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Trumpery
//ˈtɹʌmpəɹi//
Synonyms for "trumpery" (149 found)
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Translations
7 translations across 5 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- λῆρος noun (worthless finery; bric-a-brac or junk)
Bulgarian
1 entries- дрънкулки noun (worthless finery; bric-a-brac or junk)
Persian
1 entries- زلم زیمبو noun (worthless finery; bric-a-brac or junk)
Polish
2 entries- blichtr noun (worthless finery; bric-a-brac or junk)
- tandeta noun (worthless finery; bric-a-brac or junk)
Russian
2 entries- безделу́шки noun (worthless finery; bric-a-brac or junk)
- бро́ские дешёвые украше́ния noun (worthless finery; bric-a-brac or junk)
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PROSPERO.^([To Ariel]) / This was well done, my bird. / Thy shape invisible retain thou still: / The trumpery in my house, go bring it hither / For stale to catch these thieves.
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Now upon the coming of Chriſt, very much, tho' not all, of this idolatrous Trumpery and Superſtition was driven out of the World: […]
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1640, Richard Greenwey, The Annales of Cornelius Tacitus. The Description of Germanie, publ. by Richard Whitaker, 182. Agrippina after this, more mad and wilfull then ever, gave out threatning and thundring ſpeeches: yet not forbearing the Princes eares, but crying, that Britannicus was now growen to mans eſtate : a true and worthy plant to receive his fathers Empire, which a grafted ſon by adoption now poſſeſſed by the injury and trumpery of his mother.
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