sb. Obs. Also 7 trick-a-tee, 8 tricotez. [a. F. tricotets, also tricotée (Lamonnoye in Littré), f. tricoter to dance in a lively manner: origin uncertain.] A lively kind of old dance. Hence † Tricotee v. (with it), to dance this. Obs.
1659. Lady Alimony, I. ii. A iij b. A Monkey dancing his Trick-a-tee on a Rope.
1664. Cotton, Scarron., IV. (1741), 120. Poor Dido … tho’ oppressed with Woe and Care, cut Capers, and Tricotee’d it barefoot.
1667. Flecknoe, Damoiselles à la mode, IV. ii. 80. Faith if his dancing be no better then his singing, the dancing Bears shall dance the Tricotees with him for a wager.
a. 1701. Sedley, Grumbler, II. i. Will you have a minuet, Sir?… What then? (here he names half a dozen dances) The trocanny, tricotez, rigadon?
