tringle
[tring-guh l]
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noun
a narrow, straight molding, as a fillet.
Origin of tringle
1690–1700; < French: curtain rod, rod, alteration of Middle French tingle; compare Middle Dutch tingel lathe
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To her Mr. Tringle had knelt before he had taken the elder sister.
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Uncle Tringle was angry because he did not get what he liked to eat.
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But he felt almost sure that the Tringle alliance must be regarded as impossible.
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One thing he had failed to see since his first introduction to the Tringle family.
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It never does to talk to Tringle about business at his own house.
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