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Gimp   Listen
noun
Gimp  n.  A narrow ornamental fabric of silk, woolen, or cotton, often with a metallic wire, or sometimes a coarse cord, running through it; used as trimming for dresses, furniture, etc. "Gimp nail, an upholsterer's small nail."





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"Gimp" Quotes from Famous Books



... in a superb silk dress, the broad luster of which would have been beautiful, only the effect was broken and frittered away by six rows of gimp and fringe. But why blame her? This is a blunder in art as universal as it is amazing, when one considers the amount of apparent thought her sex devotes to dress. They might just as well score a fair plot of ...
— A Terrible Temptation - A Story of To-Day • Charles Reade


Words linked to "Gimp" :   limping, limp, gameness, hobble, gimpiness, lameness, hitch, intermittent claudication, walk, claudication, disability of walking


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