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  • verb Present participle of prim.

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Examples

  • Maybe you have guilds based on actual SL skills; primming, animation, scripting, texture work, etc.

    Lights Going Out in the Anti-RMT Bunker 2010

  • After a little time, in which my air, person and whole figure had undergone a strict examination, which I had, on my part, tried to render favourable to me, by primming, drawing up my neck, and setting my best looks, she advanced and spoke to me with the greatest demureness:

    Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure 2004

  • Eva responded in like vein, primming her face so that she stared impassively ahead: it truly was a most pretty morning.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • Eva responded in like vein, primming her face so that she stared impassively ahead: it truly was a most pretty morning.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • Jo stood aloof, meanwhile, trying to harden her heart against him, and succeeding only in primming up her face into an expression of entire disapprobation.

    Little Women 1921

  • Then pulled herself together as the landlady in curled fringe and long grey ulster entered the room, primming long, thin lips.

    The Privet Hedge J. E. Buckrose 1899

  • "I told Ma that she had on bracelets, and Ma said she feared your cousin was a worldly person," retorted Cecy, primming up her lips.

    What Katy Did: A Story 1887

  • "I told Ma that she had on bracelets, and Ma said she feared your cousin was a worldly person," retorted Cecy, primming up her lips.

    What Katy Did Susan Coolidge 1870

  • 'In my Case you will please to speak the truth,' said Diana, and beheld in the looking-glass the primming of her maid's mouth.

    Diana of the Crossways — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868

  • 'In my Case you will please to speak the truth,' said Diana, and beheld in the looking-glass the primming of her maid's mouth.

    Diana of the Crossways — Complete George Meredith 1868

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