Obs. Forms: 5 trompour, -er, -eur, 6 trumpour, -ir, troumpar, 6– trumper, [a. F. trompeur (13–14th c. in Godef., Compl.), f. tromper, TRUMP v.2] A deceiver, impostor, cheat. (In quot. 1456 app. a trifler: cf. TRUMPERY.)
a. 1450. Knt. de la Tour (1906), 33. He nis not so trewe a knight as we wende, for he is but a tromper and a iaper.
1456. Sir G. Haye, Law Arms (S.T.S.), 287. For syk maner of tromperyis, a prince sulde nocht juge na thole bataill to be. Bot he suld … punys sik trompouris, that … gage bataill for sik fule causis.
1560. Rolland, Seven Sages, 37. Fy Trumpour that did sic ane deid.
1571. in Calderwood, Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.), III. 104. The most vile carion,… the greatest trumper in all Europ.
1603. Philotus, I. How durst thow trumper be sa bald To tant or tell, that he was ald?
