Brimmed
[brɪmd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Brim
(a.) Having a brim; -- usually in composition.
(a.) Full to, or level with, the brim.
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Examples
- She had on a red cloak and a black bonnet: or rather, a broad- brimmed gipsy hat, tied down with a striped handkerchief under her chin. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He wore a flapping broad-brimmed traveller's hat, and under it a handkerchief tied over his head in the manner of a cap: so that he showed no hair. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- It was the figure of an old man with a bowed head, wearing a large brimmed low-crowned hat, and a long-skirted coat. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- His hair, too, as he swept off his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin upon the top. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- On his head, he wore a broad-brimmed sugar-loaf hat, garnished with a single feather. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Simeon Halliday, a tall, straight, muscular man, in drab coat and pantaloons, and broad-brimmed hat, now entered. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a feather of a brickish red. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- He wore a broad-brimmed white hat, a light shooting jacket, white trousers, and drab gaiters. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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