Mus. rare. [dim. of TRIO: cf. F. triolet TRIOLET.) = TRIPLET 2 c.
1880. S. Lanier, Sc. Eng. Verse, iii. (1909), 116. In the first bar a process exactly reversing that … described for the triole is used with singular effect. A triole [musical notation] … indicates that the three notes [musical notation] are to be played in the time of two [musical notation]’s: but we may reverse this and indicate that two [musical notation]’s are to occupy the time of three [musical notation]’s.
