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noun

Treble n. (Mus.) The highest of the four principal parts in music; the part usually sung by boys or women; soprano. Note: This is sometimes called the first treble, to distinguish it from the second treble, or alto, which is sung by lower female voices.

adjective

Treble adj.

Threefold; triple. "A lofty tower, and strong on every side With treble walls."

(Mus.)

(a)

Acute; sharp; as, a treble sound.

(b)

Playing or singing the highest part or most acute sounds; playing or singing the treble; as, a treble violin or voice.

verb

Treble v. t. (past & past part. trebled; pres. part. trebling)

To make thrice as much; to make threefold. "Love trebled life."

To utter in a treble key; to whine. (Obs.) "He outrageously (When I accused him) trebled his reply."

Treble v. i. To become threefold.

adverb

Treble adv. Trebly; triply. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Treble" Quotes from Famous Books

... blossomed and faded and burst out again as the teams swayed back and forward on the white-lined gridiron between. The wild noise of the college yells greeting the teams, the taunting horns that shattered the music of the rival bands, the shrill treble of gamins who had climbed over impossible fences, the hoarse bellow of the brown paper megaphones,—all this tumult had hushed suddenly into a tense, aching silence in which fingers dug into board seats and College hearts stopped beating when the teams ...

— Stanford Stories - Tales of a Young University • Charles K. Field

... the black plague, a greater fecundity in women was everywhere remarkable; marriages were prolific; and double and treble births were more frequent than at other times. After the "great mortality" the children were said to have got fewer teeth than before; at which contemporaries were mightily shocked, and even later writers ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 • Various

... him up in an hour when the sky was livid with the flash of lightning and the earth trembled with the roll of thunder? This was the question that filled Keith's mind as he listened to the voice at the other end of the wire. It was pitched to a high treble as if unconsciously the speaker feared that the storm might break in upon her words. She was telling him that she had telephoned McDowell but had been too late to catch him before he left for Brady's bungalow; she was asking him to pardon her for intruding ...

— The River's End • James Oliver Curwood

... will more than treble the value of the property," observed Maurice, placidly. "By the by, I presume you have had no occasion to use the power of attorney which I gave you? Just at this moment it is very fortunate for me that the estate ...

— Fairy Fingers - A Novel • Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie

... be claimed; for the present measure can be regarded as little more than the entering wedge for others. France and England profit enormously by setting the fashions for the world. New patterns and new articles are invented that sell in the first season for treble or quadruple the price at which they are gladly supplied in the second; and it is by aid of the perpetual changes bf fashion that foreigners so much control our markets. Recently, our manufacturers have been enabled to reproduce many new articles in very short time, and this has tended ...

— Letters on International Copyright; Second Edition • Henry C. Carey

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