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Before her sister, aunt, stepmother, she made light of him, calling him a simpleton, a chit, and who knows what trivial names?

From The Virginians by Thackeray, William Makepeace

These have received trivial names, though it is believed that they are only varieties, as mentioned above.

From Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys by Harvey, William

From this they derive one of their trivial names of Ai, or Ay-ay.

From Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys by Harvey, William

When the fibres are naturally interwoven, so as to form a felted mass, the mineral passes under such trivial names as mountain leather, mountain cork, mountain paper, &c.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various

It has other trivial names in different parts of the country.

From The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire by Reid, Mayne