Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Skimmed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- past participle obsolete Skimmed.
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- adjective obsolete, of milk
skimmed
Etymologies
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See float, fleeten.
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Examples
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Thus, the Mendelssohnian rule of "getting over the ground" (des flotten Daruberhinweggehens) suggested a happy expedient; conductors gladly adopted the maxim, and turned it into a veritable dogma; so that, nowadays, attempts to perform classical music correctly are openly denounced as heretical!
On Conducting (Üeber Das Dirigiren) : a Treatise on Style in the Execution of Classical Music, Richard Wagner 1848
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