trop
[troh]
- too; too much or too many.
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trop-
- variant of tropo- before a vowel: tropism.
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trop.
de trop
[duh troh]
- too much; too many.
- in the way; not wanted.
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Origin of de trop
Borrowed into English from French around 1950–55
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Examples from the Web for trop
Historical Examples
He had committed the worst offence in our profession, trop de zele.
The Parisians, CompleteEdward Bulwer-Lytton
Just so; they rid the country of the trop plein, and prevent a redundant population.
Economic SophismsFrederic Bastiat
When September came on, James found the air on the castle-hill "trop vif."
Odd Bits of HistoryHenry W. Wolff
She tid have a trop too moch sometimes, put nefer forcot herself.
ResurrectionLeo Tolstoy
It was, as he had said to Mrs. Moreen in Venice, trop fort—everything was trop fort.
The PupilHenry James
de trop
- (postpositive) not wanted; in the way; superfluous
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Word Origin
literally: of too much
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trop-
- Variant oftropo-
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