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 Trivet.Trivial, 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Tri’via.
 
Goddess of streets and ways. Gay has a poem in three books so entitled.   1
       
“Thou, Trivia, aid my song.
Through spacious streets conduct thy bard along …
To pave thy realm, and smooth the broken ways,
Earth from her womb a flinty tribute pays.”
       
Gay: Trivia, bk. i.
 


 Trivet.Trivial, 

 
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