treacher

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   archaic term for a traitor or deceiver

   The old ballad cursed the treacher who had sold his lord.

From Old French trecheor, tricheor ('cheat, deceiver'), from trichier ('to cheat, trick'), of uncertain origin, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *triccare, from Latin tricari ('to make difficulties, shuffle').

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