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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of betrim.

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Examples

  • Never a knight's lady shall be better betrimmed and betrinketed.

    The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • Never a knight's lady shall be better betrimmed and betrinketed.

    The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • Never a knight's lady shall be better betrimmed and betrinketed.

    The White Company Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • Never a knight's lady shall be better betrimmed and betrinketed.

    The White Company 1890

  • She was dressed in a faded tea-gown much betrimmed, covered up with a dingy white shawl.

    Delia Blanchflower Humphry Ward 1885

  • Lordship strode in, escorted by the crimson-gowned, fur-betrimmed City

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 29, 1893 Various 1876

  • At the top of this, surmounted by a gilt eagle, was a marvelous picture of a man with a blue coat and yellow smallclothes handing into a boat a lady who wore a skirt of purple and an overdress of scarlet, very much betrimmed, holding a green parasol over her head with one hand and placing a slippered foot on the edge of the boat.

    A Little Girl in Old Boston Amanda Minnie Douglas 1873

  • A beautiful, fine albatross cloth in itself appropriate, but betrimmed with pipings of satin and lace.

    The Girls at Mount Morris Amanda Minnie Douglas 1873

  • I couldn't eat hardly a mouthful these days for picterin 'my pretty lyin' in the mud at the bottom of that slimy, smellin 'canal, "whined Perry, wiping her eyes on the corner of a much-betrimmed white apron.

    Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls Frances Browne Arthur

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