trumeau 
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Trumeau, 13th century. At Villeneuve-le-Comte, France. 
(From Viollet-le-Duc's " Diet, de 1'Architecture.") 
In arch., any piece of wall between two open- 
ings, particularly the central pillar often divid- 
ing great doorways, especially in medieval ar- 
chitecture. 
After the eleventh century the principal portals of great 
monastic and cathedral churches were commonly divided 
into two openings by trumeaux, or pillars of stone, afford- 
ing place for sculpture, which consisted usually of a 
statue with more or less subordinate carving. 
C. H. Moore, Gothic Architecture, p. 262. 
trummelettt (trum'let), n. A ringlet. 
Her long, disheuled, rose-crown'd trummeletti. 
Herrick, Golden Apples, Description of a Woman. 
trump 1 (trump), n. [Early mod. E. also trumpe, 
trompe; < ME. trumpe, trompe = MD. trompe, < 
OF. trompe, a trump, trumpet, elephant's trunk, 
pump, P. trompe, a trump, horn, jews'-harp, 
= Pr. Sp. Pg. trompa, a trump, trumpet, ele- 
phant's trunk, = It. tromba, a trump, trumpet, 
elephant's trunk, pump (ML. tromba, trumba, a 
trump, trumpet); of. OHG. trumba, trumpa, a 
trump, trumpet, MHG. trumbe, triimme, drumbc, 
drmnme, trum, a drum, G. tromme, dial, trumme, 
trumm, tromm, dromm = LG. drumme = D. from 
(> E. drum : see drum 1 , which is thus a doub- 
let of trump 1 ) = Sw. trumma = Dan. tromme, a 
drum, = Icel. trumba, a pipe, a trumpet; orig. 
sense appar. 'pipe' or 'tube,' but commonly 
regarded (as with many other terms denoting 
sound or instruments of sound) as ult. imita- 
tive. The Teut. forms are supposed to be de- 
rived from the Bom. forms, and, according to 
Diez, are prob. from L. tuba, tube, pipe (of. OF. 
trufe, truffe, < L. tubera : see truffle). Of. Russ. 
truba, a tube, trumpet, = Lith. truba, a horn. 
The sense 'tube' in E., however, is prob. not 
original. Hence trumpet."} If. A tube ; pipe. 
But hoolsumest and best is to have made 
Trumpet of cley by potters in thaire gise, 
And iche of hem II finger thicke asslse. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 177. 
2. A musical wind-instrument; a trumpet: as, 
the trump of doom; the last trump (the sum- 
mons to final judgment). [Obsolete or archaic.] 
As when his Tritons' trumps do them to battle call 
Within his surging lists to combat with the whale. 
Drayton, Polyolbion, v. Bfl. 
We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in u 
moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump. 
1 Cor. xv. 61, 62. 
And will you think Pride speaks the word, if here 
I tell you Fame's Trump breath'd my History? 
J. Beaumont, Psyche, ii. 55. 
3f. A trumpeter; a herald. See trumpet, 3. 
Alexander the Great . . . sighed and saide : Oh the 
most fortunate, which haste founde suche a trompe to 
magnifi thi doinges ! 
R. Eden, First Books on America (ed. Arber, p. 5). 
4. A jews'-harp. [Scotch.] 
He has two large Lochaber trumpa, for Lochaber trumps 
were to the highlands what Cremona violins were to mu- 
sical Europe. He secures the end of each with his teeth, 
and, grasping them with his hands so that the tiny instru- 
ments are invisible, he applies the little finger of each hand 
to their vibrating steel tongues. 
If. Xoeleod, Life in a Highland Bothy. 
Great court trump, the burghmote horn, or other horn 
or trumpet used by a town or corporation. The tongue 
of the trump. See tongue. Trump marine*. Same 
as trumpet jnarine, or gea-trumpet. 
We in to see a Frenchman, . . . one Monsieur Prin, play 
on the trump marine, which he do beyond belief. 
Pepys, Diary, III. 288. 
trumpM (trump), v. i. [< ME. trumpen ; < trump 1 , 
.] To blow a trumpet. 
Ther herde I trumpen Messenus. 
Chaitcer, House of Fame, L 1243. 
Qwhene they tristely had tretyd, thay trumppede up af tyre, 
Descendyd doune with a daunce of dukes and erles. 
iforte Arthme (E. E. T. S.), 1. 407. 
trump- (trump), v. t. [Formerly also trump; = 
MD. trompen, < F. tromper, deceive, dupe, lit. 
play on the trump or trumpet, hence se tromper 
de quel<iu'un, play with any one, mock, beguile, 
cheat, etc. : see frump 1 , and cf . trump 3 .'] It. 
To impose upon ; dupe ; deceive ; gull. 
When she [Fortune] is pleased to trick or trrnnp Mankind, 
Some may be Coats, as in the Cards ; but then 
Some must be Knaves, some Varlets, Bauds, and Ostlers, 
As Aces, Duzies, Cards o' ten, to face it 
Out i' the Game, which all the World is. 
B. Jonson, New Inn, i. 3. 
2. To obtrude or impose unfairly. 
Authors have been trumped upon us, interpolated and 
corrupted. C. Leslie, Short Method with Deists. 
To trump up, to devise ; forge ; fabricate ; seek and col- 
lect from every quarter : as, to trump up a story. 
Hang honesty ! 
Trump me not up with honesty. 
Fletcher and Massinger, A Very Woman, ii. 3. 
trump 3 (trump), n. [Formerly also triumph; 
= D. troef = G. trumpf = Sw. Dan. trumf, < F. 
triomphe = It. trionfo, a game of cards so called, 
ruff or trump, also a triumph, < L. triumphiis, 
triumph: see triumph. The word was in part 
confused with trump 2 ,<. F. tromper, deceive : see 
trump 3 .] 1. One card of that suit which for 
the time being outranks the other suits, and 
which is generally determined by turning up 
the last card in dealing, but in some games by 
choice or otherwise ; also, the suit which thus 
outranks the others (a loose use, for the plural 
trumps). 
Hearts is trump, as I said before. 
Latimer, Sermons on the Card, L 
Come hether, Dol ; Dol, sit downe and play this game, 
And as thou sawest me do, see thou do even the same ; 
There is five trumps besides the queen, the hindmost thou 
Shalt ii ml her ; 
Take hede of Sim Glover's wife, she hath an eie behind 
her. Bp. Still, Gammer Gurton's Needle, ii. 2. 
What 's Trumpet* 
Heywood, Woman Killed with Kindness (Works, ed. 1874, 
[II. 123). 
Martin, if dirt were trumps, what a hand you would 
hold ! Lamb, in Barry Cornwall, vii. 
Ugliness being trump, I wonder more people don't win. 
C. D. Warner, Backlog Studies, p. 133. 
2f. An old game at cards, also called ruff (see 
ruff*), the original of the modern game of 
whist. See triumph, 7. 3. A person upon 
whom one can depend ; one who spontaneous- 
ly does the right thing in any emergency; a 
good fellow. [Colloq.] 
1 wish I may die if you're not a trump, Pip. 
Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, xxviii. 
Tom . . . took his three tosses without a kick or a cry, 
and was called a young trump for his pains. 
T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby, i. 6. 
Call for trumps, in whist-playing, a conventional sig- 
nal indicating that the player wishes his partner to lead 
trumps. See peter?, n. and u. To put to one's trump 
or trumps, to reduce to the last expedient, or to call for 
the utmost exertion of power : a figure borrowed from 
games at cards. 
Ay, there 's a card that puts us to our trump. 
Peele, Edward I., iv. 
trump 3 (trump), v. [< trump 9 , .] I. trans. 
To put a trump-card upon ; take with a trump. 
When Baynes got an opportunity of speaking unobserved, 
as he thought, to Madame, you may be sure the guilty 
wretch asked her how his little Charlotte was. Mrs. 
Baynes trumped her partner's best heart at that moment, 
but pretended to observe or overhear nothing. 
Thackeray, Philip, xxviii. 
II. intrant. In card-playing, to play a trump- 
card when another suit has been led. 
trump-card (trump'kard), n. 1. The turned- 
up card which determines the suit of trumps. 
2. One of the suit of cards which outranks 
the other suits ; a trump. 
trumped-up (trumpt'up), a. Fabricated out of 
nothing or deceitfully ; forged ; false ; worth- 
less. 
Its neglect will cause a trumped-up claim to have the 
appearance of a true one neglected. 
Edinburgh Rev., CLX VI. 399. 
trumpert (trum'per), n. [< ME. trumper, tram- 
pour, trumpowre, < OF. "trompour, < tromper, 
blow a trump, < trompe, trump: see trump 1 , p.] 
One who blows a trump ; a trumpeter. 
trumpery (trum'per-i), n. and a. [< F. trom- 
perie, < tromper, deceive: see tnimp^.] I. . 
If. Deceit; fraud. Sir J. Harington. 2. A 
showy thing of no intrinsic value ; something 
trumpet 
intended to deceive by false show ; worthless 
finery. 
The trumpery in my house go bring hither, 
For stale to catch these thieves. 
Shak., Tempest, iv. 1. 186. 
3. Useless stuff; rubbish; trash. 
Here to repeate the partes that I haue playd 
Were to vnrippe a trusse of trumpery. 
Mir. for Mags., I. 397. 
If I was as Mr. Jones, I should look a little higher than 
such trumpery as Molly Seagrim. Fielding, Tom Jones, v. 4. 
4. Nonsense; false or idle talk ; foolishness. 
All the Trumpery of the Mass, and Follies of their 
(Church of Home's] Worship, are by no means Supersti- 
tious, because required by the Church. 
StilKiigJleet, Sermons, II. viii. 
Extinct be the fairies and fairy trumpery of legendary 
fabling. Lamb, Old Benchers. 
II. (i. Showy, but useless or unsubstantial ; 
hence, trifling; worthless: as, trumpery orna- 
ments, 
A very trumpery case it is altogether, that I must admit. 
T. Hook, Gilbert Gurney, II. 1. 
trumpet (trum'pet), n. [< ME. trumpet, trum- 
pette = MD. trompette, D. trompet = G. trom- 
pete = Sw. trumpet = Dan. trompet, < OF. 
(and F.) trompette = Pr. trompeta = Sp. trom- 
peta = Pg. trombeta = It. trotnbetta (ML. trom- 
peta), a trumpet, dim. of OF. trompe, etc., a 
trump: see trump 1 .] 1. A musical wind-in- 
strument, properly of metal, consisting of a 
Cavalry-trumpet. 
cup-shaped mouthpiece, a long cylindrical or a 
short conical tube, and a flaring bell. The tones 
are produced by the vibrations of the player's lips. The 
fundamental tone of the tube depends on its length, but 
by varying the force of the breath and the method of em- 
bouchure, a considerable series of harmonics can also be 
produced, so that the compass of the instrument extends 
to about four octaves, the tones in the upper part of the 
series lying close together. By the addition of a slide, 
like that of the trombone, or of valves, as in the cornet- 
a-pistons, or of finger-holes and keys, as in the key-bugle 
and the serpent, a large number of other tones can be se- 
cured, so as to give a very full and continuous compass, 
well adjusted as to intonation. The fundamental tone 
can be extensively varied in modern instruments by the 
Orchestral Trumpet. 
use of crooks. The trumpet is the typical instrument of 
a very numerous family of instruments, of which the horn, 
the bugle, the cornet, the trombone, the tuba, the eupho- 
nium, and the serpent are prominent members. The name 
trumpet itself has been applied to a large number of dif- 
ferent instruments at different times. In ancient times 
two varieties were important the one straight (the tuba), 
and the other curved (the lituus), the latter being often 
made of wood or horn. In the medieval period the evo- 
lution of a great number of variants was rapid, with little 
emphasis on any one distinctively known as the trumpet. 
In the eighteenth century, and early in the nineteenth, 
the present orchestral trumpet reached its full develop- 
ment in a twice-doubled tube about five and a half feet 
long (or with the longest crook eight feet), without keys 
or valves, but with a short slide for correcting the into- 
nation of certain of the upper tones and for adding inter- 
mediate tones. The artistic value of this instrument is 
great ; but in most cases music written for it is now gener- 
ally given to valve-instruments of the cornet kind, whose 
tone can never be as pure and true. The use of the trum- 
pet was frequent with Bach and Handel, under the names 
clarino and principale. The instrument is most common 
now in works of a martial or festal character, but it is 
also useful for adding color to various combinations, espe- 
cially with other wind-instruments. Music for the trum- 
pet is traditionally written in the key of C, and the in- 
tended fundamental tone (to be obtained by the use of 
the appropriate crook) is indicated at the beginning, as 
ft clarino in F" or "tromba in E." Instruments of the 
trumpet class have always been used for military pur- 
poses, especially for signaling and in military bands. 
Trumpet, or a lytylle trumpe, that clepythe to mete, or 
men togedur. Sistrum. Prompt. Pan., p. 504. 
2. In organ-building, a powerful reed-stop, 
having a tone somewhat resembling that of a 
trumpet. 3f. A trumpeter; one who sounds a 
trumpet, either literally or figuratively. 
And att every Corse the Trumpettes and the mynystrellys 
com inne a for them. 
Torkington, Diarie of Eng. Travel!, p. 12. 
To be the trumpet of his own virtues. 
Shak., Much Ado, v. 2. 87. 
4. A sound like that of a trumpet; a loud cry, 
especially that of the elephant. 
