Definition of “trice”

-- Poet and cook: can whip up a haiku in a trice but is deliberately slower in making one of his Hyderabadi delights.

Behind the hat (or under it, perhaps) was an abiding European superstition that the African sun would cook the brains in a trice.

By employing these expressions in daily conversation and correspondence, the employer will obtain lingo dexterity in a trice.

Dress up that Roger David jacket with some gold buttons and we'll be dropping our curtsies in a trice.

It took but a trice for Karin to reappear with the sandwich.

Once the barrier was broken, though, I was down on the matting in a trice.

She popped into the kitchen and came back in a trice with the chowder and a basket of hot rolls, back in another trice with Peter's salad.

The goats gobbled down her offering in a trice , then looked at her with their stark lidless eyes, asking for more.

Their device is a hand-cranked food-mixer that can chop, say, one clove of garlic in a trice !