troll-my-dames

English

Alternative forms

• troll madam, trou madame

Etymology

From French trou-madame.

Noun

troll-my-dames (uncountable)

1. (archaic) The game of nineholes.
   • c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     A fellow, sir, that I have known to go about with troll-my-dames

   • 2009, Rona Sharon, Royal Blood:

     With his having played tennez the previous morn, followed by troll-my-dames in the afternoon, Suffolk's suggestion to practice weight lifting and wrestling was accepted with good cheer.

   • 2011, Kathy Lynn Emerson, Face Down beside St. Anne's Well:

     At the far end two women were engaged in a game of troll-my-dames, which involved rolling leather balls toward purpose-made holes in a trolling bench.