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Tristram

[ tris-truhm ]

noun

  1. one of the knights of the Round Table, whose love for Iseult, wife of King Mark, is the subject of many romances.
  2. a male given name.


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Tristram Shapeero has directed drugs related comedy on television for over a decade.

Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne One of the first novels in English ... and a buoyant, postmodern romp.

We were shown the little room not more than nine feet square where Sterne, when vicar, wrote his greatest book, "Tristram Shandy."

There's a great deal more in this than you're telling me, Mr Tristram.

"You've been talking to Lady Tristram of Blent," he added with a nod.

I don't know the real rights of it, but I'll run no risk of cheating a Tristram.

She sank back into the great arm-chair where Addie Tristram had been wont to sit.

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