trimness

English

Etymology

trim +‎ -ness

Noun

trimness (usually uncountable, plural trimnesses)

1. The property of being trim.

   The lawn's trimness impressed the home and garden award committee.

   • 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:

     The silky hair that covered round the borders, now smooth'd and re-pruned, had resumed its wonted curl and trimness; the fleshy pouting lips that had stood the brunt of the engagement, were no longer swollen or moisture-drenched

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