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† 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. caro...
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Thirsk
Thirsk is mentioned twice in the 1086 Domesday Book as Tresche, in the Yarlestre wapentake, a village with ten households.
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Elmet
Interestingly; as late as 1315, a Florentine bill of sale (wool) records:
d'Elmetta (Elmet) 11 marks per sack
Di Ledesia (Leeds) 12½ marks per sack
di Tresche
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treche
▪ I. ‖ treche, trich, v. Obs. Also 3 tricche, 5 trecche. [a. OF. trichier, trechier (3rd s. pres. triche, treche), to deceive, cheat, in Picard trikier, (trike), mod.F. tricher, Prov. trichar, triquar, It. treccare. Ulterior origin uncertain: supposed by Diez to be from a German dialect (cf. also Ma...
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