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triste (iou)



triste adjective. [tri:st] Orig. Anglicized as trist. LME.
[Old & mod. French from Latin tristis.]
Feeling or expressing sorrow; sad, melancholy; causing sorrow, lamentable. LME.
New Yorker This artist places the images of inherently sweet things..in triste landscape settings.
Not lively or cheerful; dull, dreary. M18.
O. Henry The thrumming of lugubrious guitars added to the depression of the triste night.