betrimmed
English
Etymology
From betrim + -ed.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bɪˈtɹɪmd/
- (General American) IPA(key): /bəˈtɹɪmd/
- Hyphenation: be‧trimmed
Adjective
betrimmed (comparative more betrimmed, superlative most betrimmed)
- (dated) Adorned; decked; decorated; embellished.
- 1884 November 25, Argo [pseudonym], “Ballad of a Dainty Coquette”, in Howard S. Abbott, editor, Ariel, volume 8, number 3, Minneapolis, Minn.: Senior and Junior Classes of the University of Minnesota, OCLC 32735779, page 40, column 2:
- Face of the daintiest shade, / Eyes of the tenderest brown, / Ankle so neatly displayed; / Furbelowed, lace-betrimmed gown; […]
- 1891, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “How Samkin Aylward Wagered His Feather-bed”, in The White Company, New York, N.Y.; Boston, Mass.: Thomas Y[oung] Crowell & Company […], OCLC 224313202, page 65:
- I clap a silk gown on my girl's back. Never a knight's lady shall be better betrimmed or betrinketed.
- 1897, Margaret Sidney [pseudonym; Harriett Lothrop], “Alexia Collects the News”, in Phronsie Pepper: The Youngest of the “Five Little Peppers”, Boston, Mass.: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., OCLC 7633554, page 130:
- Alexia […] fanned vigorously, so that she set all the feathers on her much-betrimmed hat into a violent flutter.
- 1897 March 13, Henry Loomis Nelson, “The Inauguration of Mr. McKinley”, in Harper’s Weekly. A Journal of Civilization, volume XLI, number 2099, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, OCLC 883997577, page 259, column 2:
- 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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Verb
betrimmed
- simple past tense and past participle of betrim