trillon.
/ˈtrɪləʊ/ a. A shake or quaver· = trill n.2
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1651 T. Stanley Poems 201 Nightingales their trillo practise here.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Trillo,..an excellent grace in singing; being an uniform trembling or shaking of the same Note.
1661 S. Pepys Diary 30 June (1970) II. 128 Myself humming to myself..the trillo; and find by use that it doth come upon me.
1721 T. D'Urfey Two Queens Brentford iv. i The Relish and Story in't shall vie with all the Opera Trillo's in Europe.
1815 ‘J. Mathers’ Hist. Mr. John Decastro & Brother Bat I. 232 A trillo from Old Comical threw her into convulsions.
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1672 W. de Britaine Interest Eng. in War with Holland 25 My Genius never prompted me to the least Trillo of Grandeur.
1713 J. Addison in Guardian 3 Aug. 2/1 To Dream! On Mossy Pillows, by the Trilloes Of a gentle purling Stream.
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