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Trifle

2 stages from Old French to English.

Today it means a layered English dessert of cake, fruit, custard, and cream, or something of little value
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Stage 1 of 2
trufle
Old French · medieval
"something trivial, a jest"
a mockery, a jest, something of little importance
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Stage 2 of 2
trifle
English · 1200s
"something of little importance, or a layered dessert"
narrowed from anything trivial to a specific layered English dessert
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