Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Sad; wistful.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
tryst .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Prov. Eng. A cattle fair.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective rare
sad - noun UK, dialect A
cattle fair .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Madamoiselle, who was rather charming but "triste" because so many of her friends had been killed, so "triste" that she never plays the piano now.
Letters from France Isaac Alexander Mack
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The doorway of L'Abbaye was not deserted, even at the "triste" hour of ten-thirty.
Kent Knowles: Quahaug Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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Beledo's World-Jazz acoustic work incorporates classic Uruguayan musical forms such as triste, milonga, chimarrita, and candombe rhythms, as well as Spanish flamenco styles.
Press Release 2009
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But I've latterly perked up at a resurgence of his zingier side, alerted by a fellow aficionado to a recent Fashion Diary from Paris, in which he likens Ingrid Sischy, self-described as "triste" and yapping haplessly for Karl Lagerfeld after the Chanel show, to a baby seal stranded on an ice floe. role as a one man Walk of the Town, feeling for the worn seams of the city's public facades that betray its private dilemmas.
Emdashes Jonathan Taylor 2010
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But I've latterly perked up at a resurgence of his zingier side, alerted by a fellow aficionado to a recent Fashion Diary from Paris, in which he likens Ingrid Sischy, self-described as "triste" and yapping haplessly for Karl Lagerfeld after the Chanel show, to a baby seal stranded on an ice floe. role as a one man Walk of the Town, feeling for the worn seams of the city's public facades that betray its private dilemmas.
Emdashes Jonathan Taylor 2010
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(When he pronounces Tryst it sounds like "triste," which means sad.
Meredith Fineman: Fifty First (J)Dates: 15 - The Chilean 2010
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(When he pronounces Tryst it sounds like "triste," which means sad.
Meredith Fineman: Fifty First (J)Dates: 15 - The Chilean 2010
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"triste" and depressing did every thing appear, that I half regretted the curiosity that had tempted me from the balmy air, and cheerful morning without, to the gloom and solitude around me.
The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 6 Charles James Lever 1839
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"triste" and depressing did every thing appear, that I half regretted the curiosity that had tempted me from the balmy air, and cheerful morning without, to the gloom and solitude around me.
The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete Charles James Lever 1839
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En las últimas horas de la noche-ellos en una triste
sosheshall commented on the word triste
spanish word: sad
August 16, 2009
sosheshall commented on the word triste
spanish : sad.
August 16, 2009