trice
noun/traɪs/
/traɪs/
Word Originlate Middle English trice ‘a tug’, figuratively ‘an instant’, from Middle Dutch trīsen ‘pull sharply’, related to trīse ‘pulley’.
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See trice in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryin a trice
- very quickly or suddenly synonym instant (1)
- He was gone in a trice.
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