2. Adjective. (context: of persons and things sometimes hyphenated) Decorated, dressed, or customized in an especially fancy, elaborate, or excessive manner. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Tricked Out
Literary usage of Tricked out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Paradox of Acting by Denis Diderot (1883)
"... bottom of their hearts, muft I rely on the borrowed reports that are fo
admirably tricked out, or on the nature of actors and the tenor of their life ? ..."
2. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1812)
"To suppose, that when bank notes have suffered a consi- mination, if it had not
been so tricked out in the gewgaw of rhetoric and sophistry as to have ..."
3. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl (1899)
"... fierce soars with delight; Loudly thunders his voice, and with clear brow he
stands, like the lightener still foremost in fight. tricked out OF HERSELF. ..."
4. The Institutes of Medicine by Martyn Paine (1862)
"... method in which the doctrine of chance is tricked out witli the devices
of "positive science," but in opposition to its plainest facts and principles. ..."
5. An Historical and Statistical Account of the New South Wales: From the by John Dunmore Lang (1875)
"HOW THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND WERE tricked out OF THEIR NOBLE INHERITANCE IN THE
WASTE LANDS OF AUSTRALIA BT COLONIAL ..."
6. The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from the World's by Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl, Donald Grant Mitchell (1899)
"tricked out OF HERSELF. BY ALESSANDRO MANZONI. (From " The Betrothed.") [COUNT
ALESSANDRO MANZONI, Italian novelist and poet, -was born in Milan, March 8, ..."
7. The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from the World's by Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell, Nathan Haskell Dole, Forrest Morgan, Caroline Ticknor (1898)
"And I — and I — thyself," (lo! each one saith,) " And thou thyself to all eternity!"
tricked out OF HERSELF. BY ALESSANDRO MANZONI. (From " The Betrothed. ..."
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