Meaning of betrimmed | Babel Free

Definitions

Adorned; decked; decorated; embellished.

dated

Examples

“Face of the daintiest shade, / Eyes of the tenderest brown, / Ankle so neatly displayed; / Furbelowed, lace-betrimmed gown; […]”

“I clap a silk gown on my girl's back. Never a knight's lady shall be better betrimmed or betrinketed.”

“Alexia […] fanned vigorously, so that she set all the feathers on her much-betrimmed hat into a violent flutter.”

“The regular army made a splendid show at [William] McKinley's inauguration, and it took part, as I have already said, in the holiday parade clad in its holiday clothes. […] It was not all the militia—perhaps it was not most of the militia—that appeared in the betrimmed streets on this gala occasion in the toggery of the campaign.”

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