Obs. Also treische, treche. [a. OF. tresce, tresche a dance, merry gathering (12th c. in Godef.); cf. It. tresca ‘a kind of Antike or merrie dance’ (Florio); ‘a country-dance’ (Baretti).] A dance, revel, merry-making.
Tresche of giants, a popular name of prehistoric stone-circles. Cf. CAROL sb. 4.
c. 1290. S. Eng. Leg., I. 88/65. Huy sounguen ofte … and treches [v.r. tresches] huy gonne lede.
1297. R. Glouc, (Rolls), 1221. Þe kinges neueu & þe erles neueu of kent…. In þat noble tresche [v.rr. treische; companye; reuel] strif bigonne arere. Ibid., 3062. Þat was þe treche of geans, vor a quointe worc it is Of stones al wiþ art ymad, In þe world such non is … Þus was stonheng uerst ymad, þat men al day yseb. Ibid., 7067. Roberd þis noble duc as he wende ouerlond A wel vair maide as him þoȝte in a tresche [v.r.r. one treche: a strete] he vond.
