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troll-my-dames: game in which the object was to ‘troll’ balls through arches set on a board (a sort of bagatelle) Wint. IV. ii. [iii.] 93 ∥ In a pamphlet of the 16th cent. called ‘troll-in-madame’; in 17th and 18th cent. dicts. ‘troll-madam’. Equivalent to Fr. ‘trou-madame’ (Cotgr.).
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.
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