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  • noun Plural form of trevet.

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Examples

  • Being also on the shore, they kindled a fire and made provision for their dinner, but (because they wanted trevets or stones whereon to set their kettles on) ran by chance into the ship, and brought great pieces of nitrum with them, which served their turn for that present.

    Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

  • Being also on the shore, they kindled a fire and made provision for their dinner, but (because they wanted trevets or stones whereon to set their kettles on) ran by chance into the ship, and brought great pieces of nitrum with them, which served their turn for that present.

    Of the Manner of Building and Furniture of Our Houses. Chapter VIII. [1577, Book II., Chapter 10; 1587, Book II., Chapter 12 1909

  • They made for him whatever he pleased of palaces, and statues, z and large dishes like fishponds, a and caldrons standing firm on their trevets; b and we said, Work righteousness, O family of David, with thanksgiving; for few of my servants are thankful.

    The Koran (Al-Qur'an) George Sale 1716

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