What's the difference between trist and triste?

Trist


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) To trust.
  • (n.) Trust.
  • (n.) A post, or station, in hunting.
  • (n.) A secret meeting, or the place of such meeting; a tryst. See Tryst.
  • (a.) Sad; sorrowful; gloomy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Watkins reemphasized the need to pronounce it "phys-i-a'trist" and suggested that we be called the American Academy of Physiatrics.
  • (2) Fish silage was prepared from some fish species of the shrimp by-catch caught in Golfo Triste, Carabobo, Venezuela.
  • (3) L'Express hailed him as France's latest enfant triste – another of the country's new wave of melancholy prodigies, like novelist Françoise Sagan and painter Bertrand Buffet.

Triste


Definition:

  • (imp.) of Trist
  • (n.) A cattle fair.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Watkins reemphasized the need to pronounce it "phys-i-a'trist" and suggested that we be called the American Academy of Physiatrics.
  • (2) Fish silage was prepared from some fish species of the shrimp by-catch caught in Golfo Triste, Carabobo, Venezuela.
  • (3) L'Express hailed him as France's latest enfant triste – another of the country's new wave of melancholy prodigies, like novelist Françoise Sagan and painter Bertrand Buffet.

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