trim

A top hat, well brushed and trim, was placed upon the floor beside him.

It was in this costume, and bringing back to Jacopo the shirt and trousers he had lent him, that Edmond reappeared before the captain of the lugger, who had made him tell his story over and over again before he could believe him, or recognize in the neat and trim sailor the man with thick and matted beard, hair tangled with seaweed, and body soaking in seabrine, whom he had picked up naked and nearly drowned.

“Those are indeed holidays to me; I go into the garden, I plant, I prune, I trim, I kill the insects all day long.”