Tristram Definition

tristrəm
noun
A masculine name: dim. Tris; var. Tristam, Tristan.
Webster's New World
A knight sent to Ireland by King Mark of Cornwall to bring back the princess Isolde to be the king's bride: Isolde and Tristram fall in love and tragically die together; in some versions, Tristram marries another Isolde, a princess of Brittany.
Webster's New World
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Tristram Sentence Examples

  • Tristram, 1902, I K.B.

  • For other countries in the Levant there are Canon Tristram's Fauna and Flora of Palestine (4to, 1884) and Captain Shelley's Handbook to the Birds of Egypt (8vo, 1872).

  • The embattled castle contains the two-handed sword of Sir Almeric Tristram, the Anglo-Norman conqueror of the hill of Howth, and a portrait of Dean Swift holding one of the Drapier letters, with Wood, the coiner against whom he directed these attacks, prostrate before him.

  • Tristan (Tristram), the ideal lover of the middle ages, whose name is inseparably associated with that of Iseult.

  • Dr Tristram was the first explorer to identify this fish, and on account of its presence suggested the identification of the "round spring" with the fountain of Capharnaum, which, according to Josephus, watered the plain of Gennesareth.

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TTRTRI

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