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- noun Plural form of
thimble .
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Examples
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He recalled the thimbles his mother and Anella wore on the ends of their fingers when they worked their embroidery or stitched his torn trousers.
Reiffeins Choice 2006
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Other teeny sewing implements such as thimbles and buttons are strongly recommended, but not subject to law.
weeme Diary Entry weeme 2004
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The latter were served on the smallest of wooden plates, with the most extravagant little butter plates -- really sauce or cream "thimbles," all fluted and shaped from white paper.
The Motor Girls on Crystal Bay or, The Secret of the Red Oar Margaret Penrose
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More than half of these hand injuries were due to fingertips and nails making contact with the hard "thimbles" inside the glove fingertips.
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Q: A woman I work with is always going on about her daughter Lu Ann—her daughter is an expert water-skier, her daughter has a collection of antique thimbles, her daughter makes prize-winning congo bars, etc.
The Language Monitor Con Chapman 2011
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“Fairy thimbles” (although it sounds like timbles with her broad Irish accent!)
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After a while, I felt buried alive in all of those pigs, so I stopped collecting them and started collecting thimbles, teacups, dolls, antique fire hats, and alcohol-advertising posters and buttons instead.
Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011
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The next man who speaks tells a story about how Dave drove around trying to find his wife thimbles for her collection when they were away on business.
Samantha Zalaznick: Mad Men Recap: Welcome to My World Samantha Zalaznick 2010
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After all, neither of us have had a new pair of shoes since the Bush administration, and what with her uncontrolled growth that started at birth and my throbbing bunion that started at mid-life, we both hobble around wincing like nineteenth century Chinese dowagers wearing shoes the size of thimbles.
Janice Harper: Three Chairs to Rattle My Walls Janice Harper 2012
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After all, neither of us have had a new pair of shoes since the Bush administration, and what with her uncontrolled growth that started at birth and my throbbing bunion that started at mid-life, we both hobble around wincing like nineteenth century Chinese dowagers wearing shoes the size of thimbles.
Janice Harper: Three Chairs to Rattle My Walls Janice Harper 2012
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