edges
/ˈɛd͡ʒɪz/ nom B1En français : petits cheveux du front, baby hairs
- The fine hairs at the edge of someone's (usually a black woman's) hairline; baby hairs.
Dans la bibliothèque
Katie Boulter gave her a perfume bottle to keep slate water in, and Julia Bell copied carefully on a piece of pale pink paper scalloped on the edges the following effusion:
They had made a beautiful nest by pulling two big leaves together and stitching them up the edges with fibers, and had filled the hollow with cotton and downy fluff.
“Oh, no, for when I had taken out the thread I required, I hemmed the edges over again.”
Often it was only the smallest trace, Watson, the faintest indication, and yet it was enough to tell me that the great malignant brain was there, as the gentlest tremors of the edges of the web remind one of the foul spider which lurks in the centre.
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