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19 fashion terms (clothing, hair styles, fabrics, etc.)
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gimp
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synonyms: fallal ???
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Definition:Defn: A narrow ornamental fabric of silk, woolen, or cotton, often with a metallic wire, or sometimes a coarse cord, running through it; -- used as trimming for dresses, furniture, etc.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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It was immediately apparent that the military man's spur had become entangled in the gimp which decorated the skirt of her dress.
Thomas Hardy. Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)
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She could not reconcile the anxieties of a spiritual life involving eternal consequences, with a keen interest in gimp and artificial protrusions of drapery.
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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