Forms: 4 trompor, -er, trumpour, 4–5 trompour(e, 5 trumpowre, 5– trumper. [a. OF. trompeor, -peur, -pour, trumpeur, etc. (13th c.), f. tromper, TRUMP v.1]

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  † 1.  A trumpeter. Obs.

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13[?].  K. Alis. 3426. For the noise of the taboures, And the trumpours [Bodl. MS. trumpes] and jangelours.

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c. 1330.  King of Tars, 499. Trompors gunne heore bemes blowe.

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a. 1440.  Sir Degrev., 661. Trompers tromped to the mete.

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14[?].  Nom., in Wr.-Wülcker, 693/7. Hec tubicina, a trumper. Ibid., 696/30. Hic tubicen, a trumper.

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1483.  Cath. Angl., 395/2. A Trumper, buccinator.

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  2.  slang or vulgar. (Cf. TRUMP sb.1 1 e, v.1 1 b.)

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1836–48.  B. D. Walsh, Aristoph., Clouds, I. iv. 313.

        If a poor little belly can utter such groans,
  When it lets out a trumper from under;
How much more must the infinite air? And the nouns
  Are alike, too—trumper and thunder.

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