He bought a Christmas tree and trimmings to decorate it. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Noun : the trimmings of a Christmas tree. ,roast turkey with all the trimmings. ,Our team took quite a trimming. From Dictionary.com.
The windowsill vase of rosemary contained the trimmings from a branch broken off by the kittens. From Wordnik.com. [Gardens and Kittens with Recipe for Eggplant Kebab on Rosemary Skewers (Κεμπάμπ με Μελιτζάνες και Δενδρολίβανο)] Reference
All the gardeners in the area dumped all the trimmings from the houses they worked at in that lot. From Wordnik.com. [SMA Radio, Soccer, Ham Radio and etc.] Reference
Web 2.0 and all its trimmings is no exception to this trend, in fact it glories in all things transient. From Wordnik.com. [Micromedia futures or the emperor’s new clothes? « Innovation Cloud] Reference
I think that a really good roast chicken with all the trimmings is my favourite Sunday roast. From Wordnik.com. [The Cottage Smallholder] Reference
Roast turkey with all the trimmings is a popular meal choice at Christmas, but packs nearly 1,000 calories. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
The trimmings are a kind of pioneer art-deco that springs from the same place as the music of Aaron Copland and the art Thomas Hart Benton. From Wordnik.com. [Josh Ritter: Asbury Park, NJ and Peekskill, NY] Reference
These "trimmings" are given gratis, the public bearing the burden of expense, which foots up to a very respectable total. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals] Reference
Joe had seen with amazing rapidity that the "trimmings" were not wanting. From Wordnik.com. [Wolf Breed] Reference
Compost piles can contain things such as trimmings, fruits, vegetables and paper products. From Wordnik.com. [WRAL.com Top Stories] Reference
The materials, especially with the "trimmings" to be mentioned presently, would have made a very good novel of the completest kind. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800] Reference
"trimmings," which not only create but reflect character. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Home] Reference
Then off goes the trimmings, and away goes the grey. From Wordnik.com. [Our Little Brown House, A Poem of West Point Written for the New Year's Festival at the Cadets' Sabbath-school of the Methodist Episcopal Church, January 1, 1879] Reference
But the biggest problem is Europe's Old Economy trimmings. From Wordnik.com. [Lending The Euro A Hand] Reference
Esquire refers to the "tsunami of trimmings" at Time magazine. From Wordnik.com. [Tidal Wave] Reference
At left, dog hair trimmings on the ground after a grooming session. From Wordnik.com. [Going to the Dogs] Reference
These are only suggestions for using up the trimmings from the cups. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Cookery] Reference
From the box the stranger produced all the trimmings for a first class meal. From Wordnik.com. [Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane] Reference
Make your own broths with leftover bones, meat scraps, and vegetable trimmings. From Wordnik.com. [Healthy eating for less: Can you top CR’s staffers?] Reference
This shore, with all its trimmings now, will look like a bald head by the first of. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore] Reference
We got two single beds -- white enamel with brass trimmings -- and a pretty mirror in. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference
“What do you think?” she asked, sweeping my trimmings up with a child-size broom. From Wordnik.com. [Serial Killer] Reference
Composting tough materials like grape prunings, berry canes, and hedge trimmings can take a long time. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
France, and while at the French Court imbibed the taste for elegant apparel and costly lace trimmings. From Wordnik.com. [Chats on Old Lace and Needlework] Reference
When he is in the mood, on the vital subject of trimmings a woman could not appeal to a sounder authority. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
The bed that they had longed for stood in their shabby front room, pink enamel, gold curlicue trimmings and all!. From Wordnik.com. [Frank H. Nelson of Cincinnati] Reference
Supermarkets, produce wholesalers, and restaurants may be willing to give away boxes of trimmings and spoiled food. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
These are usually of wolverine, or of reindeer with elaborate trimmings, but on ordinary occasions any kind will do. From Wordnik.com. [The Dance Festivals of the Alaskan Eskimo] Reference
Braise this galantine for six hours in stock, which may be made of a small knuckle of veal and the bones and trimmings. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Cookery] Reference
"But, dear," said Ruth, wonderingly, "how will we get the goods -- and the trimmings -- and pay Miss Lock for her work?". From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret] Reference
Being year-round gardeners, our kitchen discards a lot of trimmings that would never leave a supermarket and we throw out as. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
Costumes were uniformly white with great profusion of gauze trimmings, with which I also eventually became somewhat decorated. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of a Dakota Divorcee] Reference
Her expenses were low, but to save more money, she took trimmings from old skirts and sewed them onto new ones to spruce them up. From Wordnik.com. [The True Hula (excerpt)] Reference
Half freeze the custard, and pour it in the mould three inches high; throw in some of the trimmings of candied fruit chopped fine. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Cookery] Reference
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