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present participle and gerund of trump examples
plural trumpings
The act by which something is trumped, topped or capped. quotations examples
Employ two revokes, two trumpings of your partner's best card and two ignorings of a call — all in the same hand!
1923, William Henry Koebel, All Aboard: A Frivolous Book, page 102
To describe an oddball combination like 'Frolf' as a 'marriage of Frisbee and Golf' is to open yourself to trumpings of the form 'yeah, a shotgun marriage', 'a broken marriage', or depending on your politics, a 'gay marriage'.
2012, Tony Veale, Exploding The Creativity Myth
(poetic, archaic) The sound of a trumpet. quotations
We list to the trumpings that herald the storm,To the roll of the drum, and the order to form!
1861-1868, Frank Moore, The Rebellion Record