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Definition of Triste
1. n. A cattle fair.
Definition of Triste
1. Adjective. (rare) sad ¹
2. Noun. (UK dialect) A cattle fair. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Triste
1. sad [adj] - See also: sad
Lexicographical Neighbors of Triste
Literary usage of Triste
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Fiction: Being a Critical Account of the Most Celebrated by John Colin Dunlop (1816)
"... LE triste,1 in which is related the history of their son, who. was the fruit
of the interviews procured for these lovers by the accommodating Dinas. ..."
2. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1874)
"The tree where the few survivors foregathered after that triste Noche, or saddest
of night«, is still preserved—a sacred memento to our Spanish-blooded ..."
3. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"If he could not entirely abolish human sacrifices, derived from the Aztecs, he
at least restricted them, to slaves and captives." NOCHE triste, OR "THE ..."
4. Journal of a Tour in the United States, Canada and Mexico by Winefred Howard of Glossop (1897)
"... de la Noche triste"—Guadalupe-Hidalgo. IN Mexico city ! The sun had set and
the rapid twilight almost given place to the shades of night as we entered ..."
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