† tresche Obs.
Also treische, treche.
[a. OF. tresce, tresche a dance, merry gathering (12th c. in Godef.); cf. It. tresca ‘a kind of Antike or merrie dance’ (Florio); ‘a country-dance’ (Baretti).]
A dance, revel, merry-making.
tresche of giants, a popular name of prehistoric stone-circles. Cf. carol n. 4.
| c 1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 88/65 Huy sounguen ofte..and treches [v.r. tresches] huy gonne lede. 1297 R. Glouc. (Rolls) 1221 Þe kinges neueu & þe erles neueu of kent..In þat noble tresche [v.rr. treische; companye; reuel] strif bigonne arere. Ibid. 3062 Þat was þe treche of geans, vor a quointe worc it is Of stones al wiþ art ymad, In þe world such non is..Þus was stonheng uerst ymad, þat men al day yseþ. Ibid. 7067 Roberd þis noble duc as he wende ouer⁓lond A wel vair maide as him þoȝte in a tresche [v.rr one treche: a strete] he vond. |