Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To embrace in or as if in the arms; encircle.
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Examples
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As he rushed out of the door into the street, he ran up against three young men who were passing arm-inarm.
The Magic Skin 2007
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Germany and Austria, going through similar ceremonies, walking arm-inarm, kissing on both cheeks fraternally, etc.
Cyropaedia 2007
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Gymnase, Lucien and Hector Merlin went arm-inarm to the Vaudeville.
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Pretty women walk arm-inarm with men of fashion, their adorers, couples greet each other with a glance as they pass; how different it is from the terrace at Beaulieu!
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And, arm-inarm with his two acolytes, he barred the way to the new arrival.
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He had some fashionable acquaintances too, and you might see him walking arm-inarm with such gentlemen as my Lord Vauxhall, the Marquess of
Mens Wives 2006
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And of these calm moralists, is there one, I wonder, whose heart would not throb with pleasure if he could be seen walking arm-inarm with a couple of dukes down Pall Mall?
The Book of Snobs 2006
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And they did not stop once; they kept walking about the endless avenues of the park, now mounting a hill and admiring the view as they went, and now going down into the valley, and getting hidden in the thick shadows, — and all the while arm-inarm.
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As I came into the playgrounds this morning, I saw a dashing young fellow, with a tanned face and a blond moustache, who was walking up and down the green arm-inarm with Champion Major, and followed by a little crowd of boys.
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Bed doth a goddess inarm; smooth ivory glossy from Indies,
Poems and Fragments 2006
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