Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—I

Intrigue

(2 syl.), comes from the Greek thrix, hair, whence the Latin tricæ, trifles or hairs, and the verb intrico, to entangle; the Germans have the verb trugen, to deceive.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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