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  • Trimmings enhance and enrich, bringing contrast or compliment to a dominant color while adding delicate refinement.

    Archive 2008-06-01 The Nag 2008

  • And that surprise ending (Spoiler alert) where Quincy Trimmings turned into a bat while french kissing Lissa Sluttington, I almost had a stroke, a heart attack, and an orgasm all at the same time!

    Fake Book Review 2010

  • USATODAY. com - Trimmings detract from baseball's big show

    USATODAY.com - Trimmings detract from baseball's big show 2005

  • Who the hell, he demanded from his poop perch Trimmings had inspected and reported, had cut two fucken holes in his ship?

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • Who the hell, he demanded from his poop perch Trimmings had inspected and reported, had cut two fucken holes in his ship?

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • Trimmings are further made into trinkets like flowers, car decor, bar pins and the like.

    Chapter 18 1982

  • Millinery -- (short seasonal work, low wages, difficult for the average young worker to rise): Trimmings and frame making.

    The Making of a Trade School Mary Schenck Woolman

  • Trimmings and bones of fresh meats or bones and pieces of roasts or unused meat may be cut into small pieces and used for soup stock.

    School and Home Cooking Carlotta Cherryholmes Greer

  • Trimmings and ruffles must be ironed before doing the body of the garment, going well up into the gathers with a light, pointed iron, carefully avoiding pressing in wrinkles or unexpected pleats.

    The Complete Home Oliver R. [Contributor] Williamson 1907

  • Trimmings or drapings, where there are deep folds, the bottom of which is very difficult to reach, should be undone, so as to remain flat.

    Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife Marion Mills Miller 1906

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