Noun: trifoly
| Singular | trifoly |
| Plural | trifolies |
Sample Sentences
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She vvas crovvned vvith a Chaplet of Trifoly, to expreſſe readines, and openneſſe euery vvay; […] [1604 March 25 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), B[en] Jon[son], “The Pegme at Fen-church”, in B. Jon: His Part of King James His Royall and Magnificent Entertainement through His Honorable Cittie of London, Thurseday the 15. of March. 1603. […], London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] [and George Eld] for Edward Blount, published 1604, →OCLC, signature [A4], verso:]
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Braid moonfern now with mystic trifoly / Because once more Goito gets, once more, / Sordello to itself! [1840 March, Robert Browning, “Book the Third”, in Sordello, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 87:]
Nouns inflected like trifoly
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin trifolium. See trifoliate, trefoil. See: Latin Nouns '
trifolium'.