Meaning

(archaic) A female prostitute or harlot..

Definitions by Sense

1. (archaic) A female prostitute or harlot.
2. (card games) A set of three special trump cards used in some Tarock games, having a higher value than the other trumps.

Example Sentences

Spayne then enamour'd with the Romane trull, / Calls all her forces, more then Atomies, / And tells Ill-fortunes ſtorie to the full; […]

‘Hark'ee, child,’ says she, ‘is not that very young gentleman now in bed with some nasty trull or other?’

South of Delhi, Sahib, you know the saying—‘Rats are the men and trulls the women.’

There was bad blood between them at first, says Mr Vincent, and the lord Harry called farmer Nicholas all the old Nicks in the world and an old whoremaster that kept seven trulls in his house and I'll meddle in his matters, says he.

However, terrible as it may seem to the tall maiden sisters of J.P.'s in Queen Anne houses with walled vegetable gardens, this courtesan, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie, street-walker, this trollop, this trull, this baggage, this hussy, this drab, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, demirep, demimondaine, this wanton, this fornicatress, this doxy, this concubine, this frail sister, this poor Queenie--did actually solicit me, did actually say 'coming home to-night, dearie' and my soul was not blasted enough to call a policeman.

A trull for certain, then; but a trull reformed, long since come up in the world.

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