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ˈtregetour arch.
Also 4 tregetowr, -ettur, trigettur, tri-, trygetoure, 4–5 tregetoure, -itour, -e, trigetour, 4–6 tregettour, 5 -etur, -ettowre, (trageotour), 6 try-, tragetour, treageter, trogeter, -ettar.
[a. OF. tre(s)geteo(u)r (12th c. in Godef.) a juggler, mountebank, agent-n. of tre(s)geter to cast across or to and fro:—L. type *tra(ns)jectāre, f. trans- + jactāre to throw, cast: see traject. Cf. It. tragettatore juggler; and, for sense, cast n. 24, caster 1.]
One who works magic or plays tricks by sleight of hand; a conjurer; a juggler; hence, a trickster, a deceiver.
a1300Cursor M. 12247 (Cott.) A tregetur [v. rr. trigettur, tregit-, tregettour] i hope he be, Or elles godds self es he. 1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 4213 Als negremanciens and tregettours, Wiches and false enchauntours. c1380Antecrist in Todd 3 Treat. Wyclif 128 Wiþ tregetours & tomblers, wiþ gestours & japeres. c1520Treat. Galaunt 106 in Furniv. Ballads I. 449 For trygetours & tryflours that tauernes haunte. 1533tr. Erasmus' Com. Crede 65 b, These persons do make Christe a iuglere or a trogeter and a wonderfull deceiuer. 1609Holland Amm. Marcell. xxiii. v. 223 A dauncing Tregetour..was acting and counterfeiting certaine gestures that were commonly and usually taken up. 1819Scott Ivanhoe xliii, The sewer thought I was dressed to bear a part in the tregetour's mummery. 1843Lytton Last Bar. i. ii, The more sombre Tregetour..promised to cut off and refix the head of a sad-faced little boy. |