Meaning of Trimalchio | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A wealthy freedman in the 1st century CE Roman work of fiction Satyricon.
2. A nouveau riche.
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Examples

“It was when curiosity about Gatsby was at its highest that the lights in his house failed to go on one Saturday night—and, as obscurely as it had begun, his career as Trimalchio was over.”

“Pliny and his circle would have favored the former, but the Trimalchios of his time without question would have accepted the volatility and riskiness of the latter in the hope of dazzling short-term profits.”

“Eliot's epigraph is spoken by a Trimalchio, a dinner party host who is fond of pranks, careless of accuracy, and generally undependable.”

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