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Definition of Trenchers
1. trencher [n] - See also: trencher
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trenchers
Literary usage of Trenchers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle (1898)
"From earliest days the Indians made and sold many bowls and trenchers of ...
Old wooden trenchers and "Indian bowls" can be seen at the Memorial Hall in ..."
2. Suffolk Words and Phrases: Or, An Attempt to Collect the Lingual Localisms by Edward Moor (1823)
"Trenchers used to be made mostly of maple; esteemed for its whiteness and closeness
of grain. Alder was next in estimation : and when kept nicely cleaned ..."
3. Archaeologia, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity by Society of Antiquaries of London (1852)
"Antiquaries incline to the opinion that these roundels were used by our fore
fathers as fruit trenchers. The following passage in the " Art of English Poesy ..."
4. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1872)
"It was even considered as n stride of luxury, when trenchers were often changed
in one meal. In the Saturnian age, it is said, ..."
5. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1849)
"Breakfasts of flesh days doily throughout the year. ' Breakfasts for my lord and
my lady. ' First, a loaf of breade in trenchers, ..."
6. The Archaeological Journal by British Archaeological Association (1846)
"It does not appear, however, that any correct representation of the curiously
ornamented "fruit-trenchers," in fashion during the sixteenth century, ..."
7. The Furniture of Our Forefathers by Esther Singleton, Russell Sturgis (1901)
"The trenchers, of which Mr. Snow possessed three dozen, were wooden platters,
the name being derived from the French tranche, a slice, when the platter was ..."
8. The Furniture of Our Forefathers by Esther Singleton, Russell Sturgis (1913)
"The trenchers, of which Mr. Snow possessed three dozen, were wooden platters,
the name being derived from the French tranche, a slice, when the platter was ..."
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