Also -poly. Name of a district and city in the Madras presidency; used attrib., as Trichinopoli cigar, work; also absol. = T. cigar (colloq. abbreviated to TRICHI).
1863. Reliquary, Oct., 68. It [an Irish brooch] has also an attached silver chain, of that peculiar construction known as Trichinopoly-work.
1887. Doyle, Study in Scarlet, I. iii. He … smoked a Trichinopoly cigar. Ibid., I. iv. Such an ash as is only made by a Trichinopoly.
