What does betrimmed mean?
Betrimmed means (dated) Adorned; decked; decorated; embellished..
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/bɪˈtɹɪmd/ · adjective
(dated) Adorned; decked; decorated; embellished..
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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Betrimmed means (dated) Adorned; decked; decorated; embellished..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Face of the daintiest shade, / Eyes of the tenderest brown, / Ankle so neatly displayed; / Furbelowed, lace-betrimmed gown; […]
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