Lexicographical Neighbors of Tripey
Literary usage of Tripey
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dogo-graphy: The Life and Adventures of the Celebrated Dog Tiger, Comprising by Francis Butler (1856)
"SORROWFUL PARTING FROM tripey, ETC. During the interval of events, some of which
I have related, I was presented weekly to my young master, ..."
2. The Criminal Prisons of London, and Scenes of Prison Life by Henry Mayhew, John Binny (1862)
"... washed as white as the inside of a fresh hide, and with tripey corduroys, and
fluffy carpenters' flannel jackets ; the door-posts, moreover, ..."
3. The Analysis of the Hunting Field...: Being a Series of Sketches of the by Robert Smith Surtees (1904)
"... he was sucking off a pair of waterlogged boots and tripey leathers at a village
public twenty miles off. They had had a tremendous run ! ..."
4. Vestigia Insulae Manniae Antiquiora, Or A Dissertation on the Armorial by H. R. Oswald (1860)
"... I believe tripey is the name for a three-legged stool amongst the Manx cottager
to this day. ..."
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