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Traditional dress of Spain
Traditional dress of Spain is regional folk dress in three zones, north, central, and Andalusian-Mediterranean, codified nationally at a 1925 Madrid exhibition and still worn at festivals.
Traditional dress of the Americas, Arctic and Africa: comparative overview
Traditional dress of the Americas, Arctic, and Africa consists of locally made clothing systems in which materials, cut, and decoration respond to climate, trade, and social meaning.
Traditional dress of the Netherlands
Traditional dress of the Netherlands (klederdracht, streekdracht): region-bound folk clothing, never one national costume, with per-town variants signaling religion, wealth and mourning; only Arnemuiden, Marken, Staphorst-Rouveen and Bunschoten-Spakenburg still wear it daily, while Volendam dress dominates the tourist image.
Traditional food
Traditional food, also known as traditional dishes, is food from a particular culture, drawn from local resources and culturally accepted; UNESCO recognizes foodways as intangible cultural heritage.
Traditional games in the Philippines
Laro ng Lahi, traditional Filipino games such as patintero, tumbang preso, sipa, and sungka, played for generations with native materials; documented by Lopez (1980), promoted by DepEd and NCCA, and now preserved amid digital-game competition.
Traditional Italian regional dress
Traditional Italian regional dress is the local folk costume worn in Italy's regions, with no single national dress because each region has its own traditions, culture, and climate.
Traditional Native American clothing
Traditional Native American clothing, including regalia, is Indigenous North American dress of hides, quillwork, beadwork, and trade cloth; each tribe has distinct styles, and headdresses and ceremonial items are restricted.
Traditional Thai clothing
Traditional Thai clothing (chut thai, ชุดไทย) covers Thai national and ethnic dress: pha nung, sinh, sabai, chong kraben, and the eight Queen Sirikit-era Phra Ratcha Niyom styles plus three men's shirts, now under 2026 UNESCO review.
Trail mix
Trail mix (also gorp, scroggin, or Studentenfutter) is a portable snack mix of dried fruit, nuts, and often chocolate or granola for hikers; the earliest dated American recipe appears in Horace Kephart's 1906 camping guide.
Trainspotters in the United Kingdom
Trainspotters in the United Kingdom: British hobbyists who record locomotive numbers ('cops') in Ian Allan ABC data books. Began with Fanny Johnson in 1861, peaked in the early 1960s with 250,000 Locospotters' Club members, and fed the railway preservation movement.
Trappist beer
Trappist beer: beer brewed under Trappist monk supervision and certified with the ITA's Authentic Trappist Product label; ten abbeys brew it, distinct from abbey beer.
Trapunto and corded quilting
Trapunto and corded quilting are whitework techniques that raise quilted motifs with stuffing or cord inserted between fabric layers; originating in fourteenth-century Sicily, popularized in Marseilles, and widely practiced in nineteenth-century America.
Trdelník
Trdelník, also chimney cake (kürtőskalács), is a Central European spit cake of yeast dough wound on a trdlo roller and roasted hollow; Skalický trdelník won Slovakia's first EU PGI in 2007 and is not originally Czech.
Treacle tart
Treacle tart is a British dessert of shortcrust pastry filled with golden syrup, breadcrumbs, and lemon; earliest recipe Mary Jewry 1879, golden syrup dating from 1885, Harry Potter's favourite dessert.
Trench coat
Trench coat: a long, water-resistant, double-breasted belted overcoat adapted from WWI British officer outerwear, made traditionally of Burberry's 1879 gabardine, later a Hollywood and fashion classic.
Trencher (tableware)
Trencher (tableware): a medieval and early modern plate, first a thick slice of coarse bread (French tranchoir), later wood or pewter; also thin decorated English 'posy trenchers' used in sets of twelve at sweet banquets.
Tres leches cake
Tres leches cake (pastel de tres leches, three-milk cake) is a Latin American sponge cake soaked in evaporated milk, condensed milk, and whole milk or cream. Origin is disputed between Nicaragua and Mexico; Nestlé canned-milk label recipes popularized it from the 1930s.
Tri-tip
Tri-tip, also called triangle roast, Newport steak, or Santa Maria steak, is a 1.5–3 lb triangular bottom sirloin beef cut (tensor fasciae latae, NAMP 185D), popularized by Santa Maria butcher Bob Schutz in the 1950s and grilled over red oak with salt, pepper, and garlic.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire (March 25, 1911) killed 146 garment workers, mostly young immigrant women, in New York's Asch Building; locked doors, a collapsed fire escape, and short ladders led to New York factory safety reforms.
Trick-or-treating
Trick-or-treating, also known as Trick or treat, is a Halloween custom where children ask for candy. Americans spend over $11 billion annually on the holiday.
Tricorne
Tricorne (also tricorn): a hat with the brim cocked up on three sides, the standard men's headwear of the 18th century; originally called a cocked hat, the name tricorne came later.
Trifle
Trifle, or Punschtorte, is a British dessert of sponge cake and fruit. Its earliest known recipe appeared in 1596, and it is traditionally served in a glass bowl.
Trilby
Trilby: a soft felt hat with a short (under 2 inch) brim angled down at the front and up at the back, shorter crown than a fedora, named after du Maurier's 1894 novel Trilby and its stage adaptation; chiefly British, casual wear.
Trileçe
Trileçe (trilece, trileqe) is the Balkan three-milk sponge cake with a caramel top, a phonetic borrowing of Spanish tres leches; earliest documented in a Tirana restaurant in 2005, it spread to Kosovo, North Macedonia and Turkey, peaking there in the mid-2010s.
Trinidad and Tobago Carnival
Trinidad and Tobago Carnival, the pre-Lenten festival on Carnival Monday and Tuesday in Port of Spain, grew from 1783 French Creole plantation balls and post-1838 emancipation Canboulay processions into a national festival of mas, calypso, soca, and steelpan run by the National Carnival Commission.
Trinidad and Tobago cuisine
Trinidad and Tobago cuisine, or Trini food, is a Caribbean fusion of African, Indian, Chinese, European, and Syrian-Lebanese traditions, known for doubles, roti, pelau, curry crab and dumpling, green seasoning, and browning-sugar Creole techniques.
Tripe
Tripe (Italian trippa) is the edible stomach lining of ruminants, chiefly cattle; from the rumen (blanket), reticulum (honeycomb), and omasum. Cooked long, it anchors dishes like flaki, menudo, iskembe, and Italian trippa alla romana.
Tripel
Tripel is a strong golden Belgian abbey ale of 7.5–9.5% ABV, pale malt plus added sugar, dry and well hopped; first commercialized as Witkap Pater (1932) and defined by Westmalle Tripel, distinct from darker dubbel and quadrupel.
Triple sec
Triple sec: generic French category of clear, orange-flavored liqueur, no legal definition; created by Combier (1834), trademarked by Cointreau (1885); key ingredient in Margarita, Sidecar, Cosmopolitan; distinct from sweeter, brandy-based curaçao.
Triple-cooked chips
Triple-cooked chips: thick-cut fried potatoes developed by Heston Blumenthal (c. 1992-1993) using simmering, low-temperature frying at 130°C, and final frying at 180°C for a crisp crust.