| trental | 1. An office and mass for the dead on the thirtieth day after death or burial. "Their trentals and their shrifts." 2. Hence, a dirge; an elegy. Origin: LL. Trentale, fr. L. Triginta thirty; akin to tres three: cf. OF. Trentel. See Three, and cf. Trigintal. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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