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English
Verb
trinketing
- present participle and gerund of trinket
Noun
trinketing (plural trinketings)
- (obsolete) A trinket; a bauble.
1899, Richard Wagner, translated by Reginald Rankin, Wagner's Nibelungen Ring:Methinks yon baubles are more fitting meed
Than this same goddess here, so great in awe.
Gladly, we trow, ye'd give a larger price
Than these poor trinketings, to keep your Freia
And have her in your halls. So let it be.
- (obsolete) The courting of favour.
1893, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, History of the Great Civil War, 1642-1649:Some talk confidently of fresh trinketings with the King, and that Ashburnham is come to London on purpose.
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