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Noun
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- A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground, especially in warfare.
- archaeology an area within a site excavated for archaeological investigation.
#informal A trench coat.
#*1999 April 22, daSage <[email protected]>, "Re: holy mother of god! WTF??", alt.gothic.fashion, Usenet,
#*:I don't think that they should ban the coats, but I do feel that it would be fairly insensitive for one to wear a trench to (Denver) schools, at least for the remainder of the school year.
#*1999 April 24, Xiphias Gladius <[email protected]>, "Re: trenchcoat mafia", ne.general.selected, Usenet,
#*:I was the first person in my high school to wear a trench and fedora constantly, and Ben was one of the first to wear a black trench.
#*2007, Nina Garcia, The Little Black Book of Style, HarperCollins?, as excerpted in w:Elle|Elle, October 2007, page 138,
#*:A classic trench can work in any kind of weather and goes well with almost anything....
Translations
trans-top|long, narrow ditch or hole
Czech: pÅ�Ãkop m
Chinese: �� háogoū, �� zhà nháo
Finnish: juoksuhauta
French: tranchée
German: Graben m
Hebrew: he-translation|תע��|ta'ala
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Italian: fosso m (general), trincea f (military)
Portuguese: trincheira
Russian: ��ан�е� f, окоп m
Spanish: trinchera
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Related terms
entrench
in the trenches
trench coat
trench warfare
Verb
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- Usually with 'upon', to invade, usually regarding the rights or the exclusive authority of another.
#:1640: w:Ben Jonson|Ben Jonson, Underwoods, page 68:
#:*Shee is the Judge, Thou Executioner, Or if thou needs would'st trench upon her power, Thou mightst have yet enjoy'd thy crueltie, With some more thrift, and more varietie.
#:1949: w:Charles Austin Beard|Charles Austin Beard, American Government and Politics, page 16:
#:*He could make what laws he pleased, as long as those laws did not trench upon property rights.
#:2005: Carl von Clausewitz, J. J. Graham, On War, page 261:
#:*... our ideas, therefore, must trench upon the province of tactics.
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