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Trilby   /trˈɪlbi/   Listen
Trilby

noun
1.
Singer in a novel by George du Maurier who was under the control of the hypnotist Svengali.
2.
A hat made of felt with a creased crown.  Synonyms: fedora, felt hat, homburg, Stetson.






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"Trilby" Quotes from Famous Books



... century ago or more an Englishman by the name of M. F. Tupper published a book called "Proverbial Philosophy" which had a brief season of popularity, and then went out like a rush-light, or a blaze of tissue paper. Novels like Miss Sprague's "Earnest Trifler," Du Maurier's "Trilby," and Wallace's "Ben Hur" have had their little day, and been forgotten. In the art world the Cubists' crazy work drew the attention of the public long enough for it to be seen how spurious and absurd it was. Brownell's war poems turned out to ...
— The Last Harvest • John Burroughs

... the table the talk turned on the carelessness with which the public reads books. Richard Harding Davis, one of the party, contended that the public read more carefully than the others believed. It was just at the time when Du Maurier's Trilby was in every ...
— The Americanization of Edward Bok - The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After • Edward William Bok

... glory. And then like Rabelais he would burst into loud and unrestrainable laughter, and would trace on the street-wall a word which might serve as a pendant to the "Drink!" which was the only oracle obtainable from the heavenly bottle. This literary Trilby would often appear seated on piles of books, and with hooked fingers would point out with a grin of malice two yellow volumes whose title dazzled the eyes. Then when he saw he had attracted the author's attention he spelt ...
— The Physiology of Marriage, Part I. • Honore de Balzac



Words linked to "Trilby" :   chapeau, fictional character, fictitious character, hat, character, lid



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