Definition of Trumperies

1. trumpery [n] - See also: trumpery

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trumperies

trully
truly
truly yours
trumeau
trumeaus
trumeaux
trummerfeld scurvy zone
trump
trump card
trump cards
trump out
trump up
trumped
trumped-up
trumped-up(a)
trumperies (current term)
trumpery
trumpet
trumpet-wood
trumpet arch
trumpet creeper
trumpet flower
trumpet honeysuckle
trumpet section
trumpet sign
trumpet tree
trumpet vine
trumpet weed
trumpeted
trumpeter

Literary usage of Trumperies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dialogue Concerning Witches & Witchcrafts by George Gifford (1842)
"I might recken up her that dealeth with the sieve and the sheares, and a number of such trumperies, in all which the most holie name of God is polluted, ..."

2. Catalogue of a Collection of Printed Broadsides in the Possession of the by Robert Lemon (1866)
"... loaden with Popish trumperies, May. from Great Britaine to Rome : with a Dialogue betwixt Time and Truth, Popery and Policy ; each of them declaring ..."

3. A Selection of Latin Stories: From Manuscripts of the Thirteenth and by Thomas Wright (1843)
"I might recken up her that dealeth with the sieve and the sheares, and a number of such trumperies, in all which the most holie name of God is polluted, ..."

4. Hierurgia Anglicana: Or Documents and Extracts Illustrative of the Ritual of by Ecclesiological Society (1848)
"And now, because I have been somewhat longer even in the bare recital of these trumperies than I thought, I will pass over the rest of then- gross trash, ..."

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