tret
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of tret
1490–1500; < Anglo-French, variant of trait act of drawing; see trait
Example Sentences
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After that, Bach was the appropriate encore, and the group played his gorgeous final chorale, “Vor deinen Thron tret ich hiermit,” with Ms. Figueroa soaring in the theme and the others offering sensitive, moving support.
From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2013
It weighed upon Walter Bagehot that "immortal souls" should have to think of tare and tret and the price of butter; but "sich is life"—prose and poetry intertangled.
From Without Prejudice by Zangwill, Israel
Irrelevant questions I like to ask: Can you reap the tret as well as the tare?
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn
In the autumn he taught on a large plantation nine miles from Macon, where, with "mind fairly teeming with beautiful things," he was shut up in the "tare and tret" of the school-room.
From Literary Hearthstones of Dixie by Pickett, La Salle Corbell
I'll warrant, Mr. Johnston, that not even you can catch him napping with a problem in tare and tret.
From The Mutineers by Hawes, Charles Boardman
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