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Definition of Trilbies
1. trilby [n] - See also: trilby
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trilbies
Literary usage of Trilbies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research by American Society for Psychical Research (1908)
"I Shipley ought to be very proud of your little trilbies." Mr. Shipley and myself
looked at each other, to hear his own confession. ..."
2. Patriotic Orations by Charles Henry Fowler (1910)
"He wore a hickory shirt, and on his big head a coonskin cap, and nothing on
his "trilbies." It is said that once coming over a spur of the Personal ..."
3. Memorialls of the Trubles in Scotland and in England: A.D. 1624-A.D. 1645 by John Spalding (1851)
"... throw all Scotland, and that it wes and trilbies of the land, ... .1 i •, ...
i . i ,- n , ii it- hot not for offending the done m the south, ..."
4. The Sanitarian by Medico-Legal Society of New York (1896)
"trilbies of either sex are rare, and so are " little Billies." The importance of
proper treatment of the feet in massage, in controlling the circulation, ..."
5. The Boston Cooking School Magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics by Boston Cooking School (Boston, Mass.) (1914)
"It is the height of folly for the domestic woman to slight either care or shoeing
of her "trilbies", for, day in and day out, ill-treated feet retaliate by ..."
6. Musa latina aberdonensis by William Keith Leask (1895)
"Her decease and burial fully detailed in Spalding, trilbies, I. 90. The picture
here referred to is still at Gordon Castle, and is inscribed " 1626, Aet. ..."
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