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trimontane, a. nonce-wd.|traɪˈmɒnteɪn|
[f. tri- + L. montānus: see montane, and cf. L. Trimontium, place-name.]
Having, or having some relation to, three mountains or hills; in quots., belonging to Boston in Massachusetts. So triˈmountain a. in same sense; n. (in pl.) a set or group of three hills.
1837Hawthorne Twice-told T. (1851) II. i. 8 From this station,..Gage may have beheld his disastrous victory on Bunker Hill, (unless one of the tri-mountains intervened). 1840― Biog. Sk., Mrs. Hutchinson (1879) 169 The dusk has settled..upon..the Trimountain peninsula. 1885E. C. Stedman in Century Mag. XXIX. 511 It has required some independence..for a trimontane [i.e. Bostonian] poet to be a progressive and speculative thinker. |