trimontaneadj.
/trʌɪˈmɒnteɪn/ Having, or having some relation to, three mountains or hills; in quots., belonging to Boston in Massachusetts.Apparently an isolated use.
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1885 E. C. Stedman in Cent. Mag. 29 511 It has required some independence..for a trimontane [i.e. Bostonian] poet to be a progressive and speculative thinker.
Derivatives
triˈmountain adj. and n. (a) adj. in same sense; (b) n. (in plural) a set or group of three hills.
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1837 N. Hawthorne Twice-told Tales (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 N. Hawthorne Mrs. Hutchinson in Biogr. Sketches (1879) 169 The dusk has settled..upon..the Trimountain peninsula.
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