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ˈthree-tongued, a.|-tʌŋd|
Having three tongues; also, knowing or using three languages, trilingual.
1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits xi. (1596) 152 The vowels, and phrases of speech hold a very different signification from that which the vulgar and three-tongued men do know. 1690C. Nesse O. & N. Test. I. 18 That Doeg aforesaid..was trilinguis, three-tongued. 1743Francis tr. Hor., Odes iii. xi. 22 From his three-tongu'd Jaws the Poison flow'd. |