betrim

English

Etymology

From be- +‎ trim.

Verb

betrim (third-person singular simple present betrims, present participle betrimming, simple past and past participle betrimmed)

  1. To set in order; to adorn, deck, or embellish.
    • c. 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act IV, Scene 1,
      Thy banks with pioned and twilled brims,
      Which spongy April at thy hest betrims,
      To make cold nymphs chaste crowns;
    • 1845, William Tennant, Esther; or the Fall of Haman, Act III, Scene 3, in Hebrew Dramas, Edinburgh: John Menzies, p. 178,
      I must betrim myself to-day in all
      My rarest ornaments of royalty;
    • 1897, Margaret Sidney, Phronsie Pepper, Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, Chapter 8, p. 130,
      Alexia […] fanned vigorously, so that she set all the feathers on her much-betrimmed hat into a violent flutter.
  2. To trim (anything) about.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for betrim in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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