trinketing
English
Verb
trinketing
Noun
trinketing (plural trinketings)
- (obsolete) A trinket; a bauble.
- Sir Reginald Rankin
- Methinks yon baubles are more fitting meed
Than this same goddess here, so great in awe.
Gladly, we trow, ye'd give a larger price
Than these poor trinketings, to keep your Freia
And have her in your halls. So let it be.
- Methinks yon baubles are more fitting meed
- Sir Reginald Rankin
- (obsolete) The courting of favour.
- Samuel Rawson Gardiner
- Some talk confidently of fresh trinketings with the King, and that Ashburnham is come to London on purpose.
- Samuel Rawson Gardiner