tringle

[ tring-guhl ]

noun

1. a narrow, straight molding, as a fillet.

Word History and Origins

Origin of tringle¹

1690–1700; < French: curtain rod, rod, alteration of Middle French tingle; compare Middle Dutch tingel lathe

Example Sentences

When you came back, you recorded "Tringle," and then "Mad Love."

From Salon

Comet said Tringle had never behaved like an activist investor.

From Reuters

Many months—and one “tringle”—later, the singer is still in a giving spirit.

From Time

After spending the better part of a decade stuck in a prolonged legal battle with her record label, JoJo made her triumphant return to pop music earlier this year with not one but three singles—a tringle, as she dubbed it.

From Time

Now, she’s following up the dance-heavy clip for “When Love Hurts” with a video for the tringle’s most affecting song, the supercharged ballad “Say Love,” over at BuzzFeed.

From Time