Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A worthless trifle.
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III. i.58 (362,3) This paltring/Becomes not Rome] That is, this trick of dissimulation, this shuffling.
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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