betrimmed

English edit

Etymology edit

From betrim +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation edit

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɪˈtɹɪmd/
(General American) IPA^(key): /bəˈtɹɪmd/
Hyphenation: be‧trimmed

Adjective edit

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, 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, 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, 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, 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.

Verb edit

betrimmed

simple past and past participle of betrim