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 Trencher Knight.Tres’sure (2 syl.). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Trenchmore.
 
A popular dance in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.   1
        “Nimble-heeled mariners … capering . . sometimes a Morisco, or Trenchmore of forty miles long.”—Taylor the Water-Poet.
 


 Trencher Knight.Tres’sure (2 syl.). 

 
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