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- noun
Accompaniments to a meal. - noun UK
Domestic decorations for a room, especiallyChristmas decorations.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the accessories that normally accompany (something or some activity)
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Examples
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The windowsill vase of rosemary contained the trimmings from a branch broken off by the kittens.
Archive 2008-09-01 Laurie Constantino 2008
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The windowsill vase of rosemary contained the trimmings from a branch broken off by the kittens.
Gardens and Kittens with Recipe for Eggplant Kebab on Rosemary Skewers (Κεμπάμπ με Μελιτζάνες και Δενδρολίβανο) Laurie Constantino 2008
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Web 2.0 and all its trimmings is no exception to this trend, in fact it glories in all things transient.
Micromedia futures or the emperor’s new clothes? « Innovation Cloud 2008
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Web 2.0 and all its trimmings is no exception to this trend, in fact it glories in all things transient.
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It was delicious, and true to its name, had loads of pork bones (the trimmings from the back bone where you really have to dig in the get at the meat), topped with this very light, not-sweet-at-all sauce.
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You can make it with salmon trimmings from the fish shop, and use the included bones for a stock, if you are so inclined, following the basic method for shrimp stock below.
Shrimp and Corn Chowder Lindy 2006
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All the gardeners in the area dumped all the trimmings from the houses they worked at in that lot.
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I will therefore beg you to consider the twenty-one hours past, and Louisville reached in safety, where hot tea and "trimmings" -- as the astute young
Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray
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There were oranges, apples, bananas, several of each; a bunch of soup-greens, scraps of fresh meat -- evidently butchers '"trimmings" -- odds and ends of vegetables; while in the midst of the melee three live crabs struck out in as many directions for freedom.
Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales Ruth McEnery Stuart 1886
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It's all out there and collegiate are eating it up the information, not the nether region trimmings, that is.
Jeff A. Katz: Frat Is the New Black: The Emergence of College-Centric Websites Jeff A. Katz 2011
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