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▪ I. † tricot1 Obs. rare—1.
[Allied to OF. tricotage chicanery, trickery (Godef. Compl.), tricotement chicane (c 1400 in Godef.), tricoterie ‘cousenage, cheating, trecherie, deceit, in the following of a suit, etc.’ (Cotgr.), which imply a vb. *tricoter to cozen, cheat, and perh. a n. *tricot; but these do not appear in this sense, unless they are fig. uses of tricoter to knit, tricot knitting.]
Trickery, fraud.
c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode iii. xxvi. (1869) 150 The oother hand..is cleped..tricot..and disceyuaunce.
▪ II. ‖ tricot2|triko|
[F. tricot knitting, knitted work, f. tricoter to knit; of uncertain origin.]
a. (a) Knitting; knitted work or fabric; a woollen fabric, knitted by hand, or by machinery in imitation of hand-knitting; (b) the name of a woollen fabric (see quot. 1904); (c) a pair of close-fitting knitted tights; (d) short for tricot-stitch.
1859L. Wraxall tr. Robert-Houdin's Mem. II. ix. 259 And the whole [false stomach] being concealed beneath a flesh-colour tricot, appeared to form part of his body. 1872Browning Fifine iii, The human beauty..Tricot fines down if fat, padding plumps up if lean. 1882Caulfeild & Saward Dict. Needlework 128/2 Make a Foundation chain..and work a row of Tricot. 1893A. Zimmern tr. Blümner's Home Life Anc. Grks. xii. 440 The costume and the tricots, as well as the grotesque masks, are worthy of notice. 1898Daily News 5 Mar. 6/4 A mourning walking dress in woollen tricot. 1904Woollen Draper's Terms in Tailor & Cutter 4 Aug. 480/1 Tricots, a woollen fabric, with diagonals running straight across the piece, and something like cassimere handle. 1926Spectator 6 Feb. 219/1 Let us hope that the odious ‘tricot’, or tights, which create, by emphasizing, indecency have disappeared for ever—at any rate in Paris [music-halls].
b. attrib., as tricot-stitch, tricot-work.
1880B'ham Weekly Post 2 Oct. 1/5, I have an interminable piece of trico work in hand, which has been my resource for several years. 1882Caulfeild & Saward Dict. Needlework 128/1 Tricot stitch... The easiest of crochet stitches, but only suitable for straight work; it is usually worked with Berlin or fleecy wool, and a wooden hook, and is suitable for couvrepieds, counterpanes, muffatees, mufflers, and other warm articles. |