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Trimmings

noun

The accessories that normally accompany (something or some activity). Synonym: fixings. "He bought a Christmas tree and trimmings to decorate it"

Trimming

noun

The act of adding decoration.

A decoration or adornment on a garment. Synonyms: passementerie, trim. "The trim on a shirt"

Cutting down to the desired size or shape. Synonyms: clipping, trim.

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"Trimmings" Quotes from Famous Books

... very much about us, and would often talk about the good family he belonged to and his hopes of speedy preferment; and another favourite topic of his was the gay suits he had worn in his secular days; he would dwell very fondly on the cut and trimmings of these clothes. I think nothing misliked him in his profession but the gravity of dress required from a clerical person; and I was often tempted to ask, had his father been a tailor? He made the most of his sober apparel, and loved to show ...

— Andrew Golding - A Tale of the Great Plague • Anne E. Keeling

... I started for Barnard. Helen has written so much about the college that as soon as I struck the Boulevard I knew the solid brick building with its trimmings of stone fasces. I turned into the cloistered court on One Hundred and Nineteenth Street and paused a minute, looking up at its Ionic porticoes and high window lettered ...

— The Bacillus of Beauty - A Romance of To-day • Harriet Stark

... form in which she was beheld during these minutes of singing, for her permanent attitude of visitation to Stephen's eyes during his sleeping and waking hours in after days. The profile is seen of a young woman in a pale gray silk dress with trimmings of swan's-down, and opening up from a point in front, like a waistcoat without a shirt; the cool colour contrasting admirably with the warm bloom of her neck and face. The furthermost candle on the piano comes immediately in a line with ...

— A Pair of Blue Eyes • Thomas Hardy

... I should like it of all things, and it needn't cost much, for I have some skill in trimmings, as you know." And Miss Kent looked so gay and pretty as she spoke that Mr. Chrome made up his mind that millinery must be ...

— Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag VI - An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc. • Louisa M. Alcott

... so in absolute truth. Simple, graceful lines, combined with dainty hand-wrought trimmings had produced four frocks which would have sold at a high price in an ...

— Jane Allen: Right Guard • Edith Bancroft

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