"troll madam" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear:",
          "text": "Look where he stands and glares. Want'st thou eyes at troll-madam?",
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          "ref": "1889, G. Alan Lowndes, “An Inventory of the Household Goods Of Sir Thomas Barrington, Bart., At Hatfield Priory, In 1626”, in Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society, volume 3, page 157:",
          "text": "i pr of bellowes\n3 greene carpetts\ni pr brasse snuffers\ni Troll madam",
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          "ref": "2005, Charles Gidley Wheeler, Armada: A Novel, page 80:",
          "text": "'As for you,' he went on, pointing his knife at Tristram, 'if you think you can start playing troll-madam under this roof, you can think again, because this is a good Christian household and that's the way I intend to keep it.",
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          "ref": "2020, H. Sutherland Edwards, Old and New Paris: Volume 2, page 27:",
          "text": "Delavau, the prefect of police, had permitted him to establish, on the public road, a game known as “troll-madam”; and this game, an excellent trap for boobies and passers-by whose slightest words and actions were keenly watched by Vidoc's hounds, produced, from the 20th of July to the 4th of August, 1823, a net profit of 4,364 francs.",
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          "ref": "1889, G. Alan Lowndes, “An Inventory of the Household Goods Of Sir Thomas Barrington, Bart., At Hatfield Priory, In 1626”, in Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society, volume 3, page 157:",
          "text": "i pr of bellowes\n3 greene carpetts\ni pr brasse snuffers\ni Troll madam",
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          "ref": "2005, Charles Gidley Wheeler, Armada: A Novel, page 80:",
          "text": "'As for you,' he went on, pointing his knife at Tristram, 'if you think you can start playing troll-madam under this roof, you can think again, because this is a good Christian household and that's the way I intend to keep it.",
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          "text": "Delavau, the prefect of police, had permitted him to establish, on the public road, a game known as “troll-madam”; and this game, an excellent trap for boobies and passers-by whose slightest words and actions were keenly watched by Vidoc's hounds, produced, from the 20th of July to the 4th of August, 1823, a net profit of 4,364 francs.",
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