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noun

Trio n.

Three, considered collectively; three in company or acting together; a set of three; three united. "The trio were well accustomed to act together, and were linked to each other by ties of mutual interest."

(Mus.)

(a)

A composition for three parts or three instruments.

(b)

The secondary, or episodical, movement of a minuet or scherzo, as in a sonata or symphony, or of a march, or of various dance forms; not limited to three parts or instruments.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Trio" Quotes from Famous Books

... unshorn, unwashed, villainous, whopping big Bosch infantrymen! It would be difficult to say who was the most staggered for the moment, the Huns blinking in the sudden glare of the torch or the Babe well aware that he was up against a trio of escaped and probably quite desperate prisoners of war. "Victory," says M. HILAIRE BELLOC (or was it NAPOLEON? I am always getting them mixed) "is to him who can bring the greatest force to bear on ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Feb. 12, 1919 • Various

... MacKay is not only the youngest and the richest of that bonanza trio—Flood, Fair and MacKay but immense wealth has not spoiled him. He is of Irish birth, but came to this country before he was of age. When the gold fever broke out he was one of the first to seek his fortune in that ...

— Hidden Treasures - Why Some Succeed While Others Fail • Harry A. Lewis

... parties who reduce a stranger to a condition of misery by their mutual bickerings. So far from labouring under the impression that any manners were good enough for the members of their own family, the Saville trio were even more punctiliously courteous to each other than to strangers, and that despite the fact that parents and child were on terms of much greater intimacy than is usual in ...

— More About Peggy • Mrs G. de Horne Vaizey

... the trio sat waiting for the blow to fall. Once or twice Oscar asked querulously where Bosie was, but no one ...

— Oscar Wilde, Volume 1 (of 2) - His Life and Confessions • Frank Harris

... jealousy of the superior esteem evinced for the poet by Dr. Johnson. We have a gleam of this in his account of the first evening he spent in company with those two eminent authors at their famous resort, the Mitre Tavern, in Fleet Street. This took place on the 1st of July, 1763. The trio supped together, and passed some time in literary conversation. On quitting the tavern, Johnson, who had now been sociably acquainted with Goldsmith for two years, and knew his merits, took him with him to drink tea with ...

— Oliver Goldsmith • Washington Irving

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