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Date: 1400-1500
Origin: trice 'pull' (14-15 centuries), from trice 'to pull' (14-21 centuries), from Middle Dutch trisen

trice

 noun
     
trice

in a trice

British English old-fashioned very quickly or soon:
He should be here in a trice.
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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