tregetour

tregetour

English

Etymology

From Old French tregetor, from tregeter (“throw around”), ultimately from Latin trans + jactare (“throw”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɛd͡ʒətə/

Noun

tregetour (plural tregetours)

1. (archaic) A magician or juggler; a trickster.
   • late 1300s, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales:

     Men make diverse apparences, / Swiche as thise subtile tregetoures pleye.

   • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:

     I say the sewer thought I was dressed to bear a part in the tregetour’s mummery, and so I got admission.