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UK
/tɹˈɪmɪŋz/
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[ US /ˈtɹɪmɪŋz/ ]
[ US /ˈtɹɪmɪŋz/ ]
NOUN
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the accessories that normally accompany (something or some activity)
he bought a Christmas tree and trimmings to decorate it
an elaborate formal dinner with all the fixings
How To Use trimmings In A Sentence
- Reroll and repeat with the chilled pastry trimmings. Times, Sunday Times
- In an article last October, I described how my wife and I planned to chop around £800 a month from our expenses by cutting back on unnecessary luxuries, frills and trimmings.
- Messenger bags have been around for many years and, like most fashion items, they have evolved with the times, which is why this messenger bag has the trimmings to make it one of the hippest bags around.
- The venue is purpose built for rituals and ceremonies, with appropriately fabulous acoustics, lavish trimmings and colourfully costumed officiants.
- Turkey and all the trimmings love rich curranty reds. Times, Sunday Times
- Thus Flora on one occasion had been reduced to rage and despair, had her most secret feelings lacerated, had obtained a view of the utmost baseness to which common human nature can descend -- I won't say _a propos de bottes_ as the French would excellently put it but literally _a propos_ of some mislaid cheap lace trimmings for a nightgown the romping one was making for herself. Chance A Tale in Two Parts
- The complement consists of the usual non-meat additives as used in meat butchery (for example breadcrumbs and trimmings) and pork butchery (more particularly the authorised food additives and seasonings).
- Then I noticed that a lot of debris, consisting of tree trimmings and garbage that people had thrown into the gully was rammed up against the side of the bridge facing the direction the water flowed from.
- Fibre Glass, Candle Holders, Luminaires Picture Frame , Panels, Trimmings, Tablewares.
- But I did have the trimmings from the quires the monks made to make tiny booklets of my own.