troll-my-dames THE WINTER'S TALE, iv. 3. 83. The
game of Troll-madam was borrowed from the French
(Troumadame). An old English name for it was
Pigeon-holes,
“as the arches in the machine through which the balls are
rolled resemble the cavities made for pigeons
in a dovehouse”
(STEEVENS)
.
“Trou Madame. The Game called
Trunkes, or the Hole.”
Cotgrave's Fr. and Engl.
Dict.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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