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/ɡɪmp/ · noun
A narrow ornamental fabric or braid of silk, wool, or cotton, often stiffened with metallic wire or coarse cord running through it, used as trimming for dresses, curtains, furniture, etc. Also guimpe..
They sat about in black and shiny and flouncey clothing adorned with gimp and beads, eating great quantities of cake, drinking much tea in a stately manner and reverberating remarks.
I'm a fisher of men and my gimp is doing a saltarello over every body of water to fetch up what it may.
Love them and encourage them, but put some 'gimp' into them.
You haven't got gimp enough to, any more than you could smash the rest of that pint, instead of swallowing it. You're a weakling...
When people put a lot on what their folks used to do, it always means they haven't got gimp enough left to do anything themselves.
It consists of seventy fine spun cotton threads, gimped or tied around with thread by a machine similar to that for wrapping bonnet wire.
...low strings later than the mid-seventeenth century are commonly gimped (wound with fine wire on a moderate core) to allow sufficient tension without excessive mass or stiffness.
They are prettier cut and gimped in the shape of wheels.
Use gimp when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Gimp means A narrow ornamental fabric or braid of silk, wool, or cotton, often stiffened with metallic wire or coarse cord running through it, used as trimming for dresses, curtains, furniture, etc. Also guimpe..
Common synonyms include spirit, ambition, vigor, pep.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
They sat about in black and shiny and flouncey clothing adorned with gimp and beads, eating great quantities of cake, drinking much tea in a stately manner and reverberating remarks.
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