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rimmed

adjective C2
  1. Having a rim. · Near-synonyms: (sometimes synonymous) brimmed, lipped, ledged
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She had made friends with the spring down in the hollow--that wonderful deep, clear icy-cold spring; it was set about with smooth red sandstones and rimmed in by great palm-like clumps of water fern; and beyond it was a log bridge over the brook.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 62 · C1
Miss Josephine Barry, thin, prim, and rigid, was knitting fiercely by the fire, her wrath quite unappeased and her eyes snapping through her gold-rimmed glasses.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 155 · C1
The old woman faced round and looked keenly at him from her little red-rimmed eyes.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 51 · B2
He was a very tall, thin man, with a long nose like a beak, which jutted out between two keen, grey eyes, set closely together and sparkling brightly from behind a pair of gold-rimmed glasses.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 6 · C1

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