brim
/bɹɪm/ nom C1En français : bord
- Originally, a border or edge of a sea, a river, or other body of water; now, any border or edge.
- The topmost lip or rim of a container, or a natural feature shaped like a container. · The toy box was filled to the brim with stuffed animals.
- A projecting rim.
- That of a hat. · He turned the back of his brim up stylishly.
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They wore round hats that rose to a small point a foot above their heads, with little bells around the brims that tinkled sweetly as they moved.
“Dark complexion; hair, eyebrows, and whiskers black; blue frock-coat, buttoned up to the chin; rosette of an officer of the Legion of Honor in his button-hole; a hat with wide brim, and a cane.”
Villefort, pale and agitated, ran to the window, put aside the curtain, and saw him pass, cool and collected, by two or three ill-looking men at the corner of the street, who were there, perhaps, to arrest a man with black whiskers, and a blue frock-coat, and hat with broad brim.
With the “rose-red” girl, Stella Maynard, and the “dream girl,” Priscilla Grant, she soon became intimate, finding the latter pale spiritual-looking maiden to be full to the brim of mischief and pranks and fun, while the vivid, black-eyed Stella had a heartful of wistful dreams and fancies, as aerial and rainbow-like as Anne’s own.
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