TRUFFERY NOUN a thing of no importance; a mockery, a trifle, a triviality ...c1429 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from Middle French trufferie, truferie (teasing, joke, c1227 in Old French; nonsense end of the 13th cent.; triviality c1341; knick-knack, bauble 1378), from truffer , trufer (truff vb. to trifle with) + -erie (-ery) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE c1429 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...The first two causes pilat / helde bot a truferye Asking crist of the thredde / diuerse tymes bysylye ffor Cesare the revme of Jewes / helde vndere Romayns Empire And thai no king bot hym / to commande at his desire Pilat apon the Jewes / be Cesare hadde powere ffor thy of non oyr king / of the Jewes walde he here..." From: The Miroure of Mans Saluacionne: A Fifteenth Century Translation into English of the Speculum Humanae Salvationis - Edited by Avril Henry
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