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单词 trantles
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trantlesn.

Forms: Also trantals.
Etymology: apparently corruption of trental n., taken as a type of trifling ceremonies.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtrantles.
Scottish.
With plural agreement. Trifles, trifling or petty articles.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of little importance or trivial > collectively
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fry1587
small beer1620
pigs and whistles1681
trantlesa1689
rattletrap1742
fewtrils1763
fritter1803
nugae1822
small beer1844
trick1877
trivia1902
1562 A. Scott New Yere Gift to Quene 89 in Poems (S.T.S.) 4 Thai tyrit God with tryfillis, tvme trentalis, And daisit him with daylie darigeis.]
a1689 W. Cleland Coll. Poems (1697) 88 Such are baptizing of Bells, Hallowing Altars, Kirk and Cells,..For to impose gray Gowns, or Mantles, Or any such base Tritle Trantles.
1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. Trantles, bits of broken iron; odd things of hardware about a farm-house, same with trantlums; there are generally boles or holes about, where broken horse-shoon [etc.] be thrown; these are termed trantle-boles.
a1903 J. Lumsden Toorle 206 A' kind o' trantles they could find They braucht along!
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