Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Trotwood
Trotwood, proper n. [poss. < Trotter, messenger < Fr. trot; see also wood, n.]
David Copperfield; new given name that the boy protagonist receives when Aunt Betsy Trotwood adopts him in Charles Dicken's novel David Copperfield.
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