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Trilby

noun

Singer in a novel by George du Maurier who was under the control of the hypnotist Svengali.

A hat made of felt with a creased crown. Synonyms: fedora, felt hat, homburg, Stetson.

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"Trilby" Quotes from Famous Books

... all its truth of detail, and to follow its course through many windings, it is necessary here to divulge some of love's secrets, to glide beneath the ceilings of a marriage chamber, not shamelessly, but like Trilby, frightening neither Dougal nor Jeannie, alarming no one,—being as chaste as our noble French language requires, and as bold as the pencil of Gerard in his picture of Daphnis ...

— Ferragus • Honore de Balzac

... people would say that I haven't paid the full penalty, being a girl instead of a boy! Look at poor Tess, and Trilby, and Hetty in 'Adam Bede!' I never let any one know it; even your aunt never would have overlooked that, whatever she might say now. No; even Jim protected me—and yet," Julia put her head back, shut her eyes, "and yet I've paid a thousand ...

— The Story Of Julia Page - Works of Kathleen Norris, Volume V. • Kathleen Norris

... a sweat for 'is 'orses. I didn' reckernise 'im for the moment—dressed out in a fur coat an' Trilby 'at. But it's Gavel, an' 'e's walkin' straight into Glasson's arms. Stand by to do a bolt soon as 'e ...

— True Tilda • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... storekeepers have had a bad season, it's up to us to go back the next year and face the same old line of junk, knowing it will be there until we give in and buy it. There are two Christmas gift edition copies of Trilby still on sale in Homeburg, and Sam Green the druggist has had a ten-dollar manicure set on sale for ten years now. He won't get another, either. Says he was stung on the first one, and he's going ...

— Homeburg Memories • George Helgesen Fitch

Words linked to "Trilby" : lid, fictional character, character, hat, fictitious character, chapeau