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English
Noun
trangam (plural trangams)
- (obsolete) A showy or worthless article.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:trinket
1712, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], “Of Some Quarrels that Happen’d after Peg was Taken into the Family”, in John Bull Still in His Senses: Being the Third Part of Law is a Bottomless-Pit. , London: John Morphew, , →OCLC, page 24:Hey day! vvhat's here? vvhat a Devil's the meaning of all theſe Trangams and Gimcracks, Gentlemen?
1820, [Walter Scott], The Abbot. , volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, ; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, , →OCLC:And meet time it was, when yon usher, vinegar-faced rogue that he is, began to inquire what popish trangam you were wearing […]
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