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troll madam en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, uncountable) Alternative form of troll-my-dames.
    • 'As for you,' he went on, pointing his knife at Tristram, 'if you think you can start playing troll-madam under this roof, you can think again, because this is a good Christian household and that's the way I intend to keep it. 2005, Charles Gidley Wheeler, Armada: A Novel, page 80:
    • Look where he stands and glares. Want'st thou eyes at troll-madam? 1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear:
    • i pr of bellowes 3 greene carpetts i pr brasse snuffers i Troll madam 1889, G. Alan Lowndes, “An Inventory of the Household Goods Of Sir Thomas Barrington, Bart., At Hatfield Priory, In 1626”, in Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society, volume 3, page 157:
    • Delavau, the prefect of police, had permitted him to establish, on the public road, a game known as “troll-madam”; and this game, an excellent trap for boobies and passers-by whose slightest words and actions were keenly watched by Vidoc's hounds, produced, from the 20th of July to the 4th of August, 1823, a net profit of 4,364 francs. 2020, H. Sutherland Edwards, Old and New Paris: Volume 2, page 27: