rare. [f. TRICK v. + -MENT.] Decoration, adornment.
In earliest use app. heraldic ornament; cf. HATCHMENT.
a. 1619. Fletcher, etc., Knt. of Malta, IV. ii. A new tomb, new trickments too. Ibid. (a. 1619), Mad Lover, V. iv. No tombe shall hold thee But these two armes, no Trickments but my teares.
a. 1843. Southey, in Fraser’s Mag. (1868), LXXVIII. 106. Other poets,… forced their verses with far-fetched conceits and tawdry trickments of art.
