trig
noun
trigly
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a word derived from
trig.
Example Sentences
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Her petticoats were very short, her feet trigly shod, and while unmarried she wore a most picturesque headdress of white muslin or linen, set a little backward over her always luxuriant hair.
From Christine A Fife Fisher Girl by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
We entered a neat clean room, and met a kind reception from 'the Mistress,' who was as trigly dressed as if she had been expecting company.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 451 Volume 18, New Series, August 21, 1852 by William Chambers
Ramsay, II, 526, uses the adv. trigly in the sense of "proudly." 69Twist, sb. twig, branch.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom
He was a little man, trigly built, with a bullet head under a closely cropped thatch of white.
From The Fur Bringers A Story of the Canadian Northwest by Hulbert Footner
He always seemed so trigly dressed, so well put together.
From The Titan by Theodore Dreiser
