Meaning of troll madam | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [B2]

Examples

“Look where he stands and glares. Want'st thou eyes at troll-madam?”

“i pr of bellowes 3 greene carpetts i pr brasse snuffers i Troll madam”

“'As for you,' he went on, pointing his knife at Tristram, 'if you think you can start playing troll-madam under this roof, you can think again, because this is a good Christian household and that's the way I intend to keep it.”

“Delavau, the prefect of police, had permitted him to establish, on the public road, a game known as “troll-madam”; and this game, an excellent trap for boobies and passers-by whose slightest words and actions were keenly watched by Vidoc's hounds, produced, from the 20th of July to the 4th of August, 1823, a net profit of 4,364 francs.”

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