Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An office-book formerly used in the Western Church, containing the tropes and sequences. See
trope , 3. Also tropary, troperium.
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Examples
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A troper is a collection of tropes, which were new music inserted into the chants of the mass for special feast days.
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Scott Fitzgerald was a notorious troper in his short stories.
Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Who said that? Wait, I did. Or was it Oscar Wilde? 2009
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Scott Fitzgerald was a notorious troper in his short stories.
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Scott Fitzgerald was a notorious troper in his short stories.
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Perhaps even more satisfying is that the plot twists truly and honestly blew me away. troper, it's often easy to spot plot developments coming, but Sanderson both surprises and explains things so adeptly that he manages to balance the nearly impossible task of adequate foreshadowing and true delightful surprise.
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