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Trental

trental

1. An office and mass for the dead on the thirtieth day after death or burial. Their trentals and their shrifts.

2. Hence, a dirge; an elegy.

Origin: LL. Trentale, fr. L. Triginta thirty; akin to tres three: cf. OF. Trentel. See Three, and cf. Trigintal.


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