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Trist   Listen
noun
Trist  n.  
1.
Trust. (Obs.)
2.
A post, or station, in hunting. (Obs.)
3.
A secret meeting, or the place of such meeting; a tryst. See Tryst. (Obs.) "George Douglas caused a trist to be set between him and the cardinal and four lords; at the which trist he and the cardinal agreed finally."





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"Trist" Quotes from Famous Books



... I had taken up was the "Mad Trist" of Sir Launcelot Canning; but I had called it a favorite of Usher's more in sad jest than in earnest; for, in truth, there is little in its uncouth and unimaginative prolixity which could have had interest for the lofty and spiritual ideality ...
— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 2 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe
... unfortunately slain on the sands of Sheba Cove, in the parish of Ruan Lanihale, August 15, 1810: or so much of it as is hereby related by the Rev. Endymion Trist, B.D., then vicar of that parish, in a ...
— Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts • A. T. Quiller-Couch


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