English Dictionary

gimp

IPA（発音記号）

/ɡɪmp/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 米国北東部英語 古風

A narrow ornamental fabric or braid of silk, wool, or cotton, often stiffened with metallic wire or coarse cord running through it, used as trimming for dresses, curtains, furniture, etc. Also guimpe.

日本語の意味

細長い装飾用の生地または細い帯状の編み物。シルク、ウール、綿などで作られ、金属線や太いコードで硬めに仕上げられており、ドレス、カーテン、家具などのトリミングに用いられる。

She carefully stitched a narrow, gold-threaded gimp along the edge of the antique drape to restore its original elegance.

彼女はアンティークのカーテンの縁に、細く金糸の入った装飾用ブレードを丁寧に縫い付けて元の優雅さを取り戻した。

意味（1）

A narrow ornamental fabric or braid of silk, wool, or cotton, often stiffened with metallic wire or coarse cord running through it, used as trimming for dresses, curtains, furniture, etc. Also guimpe.

意味（2）

Any coarse or reinforced thread, such as a glazed thread employed in lacemaking to outline designs, or silk thread used as a fishing leader, protected from the bite of fish by a wrapping of fine wire.

I'm a fisher of men and my gimp is doing a saltarello over every body of water to fetch up what it may.

意味（3）

The plastic cord used in the plaiting and knotting craft Scoubidou (lanyard making); or, the process itself.

意味（4）

(dated, chiefly North Eastern US) Gumption

Love them and encourage them, but put some 'gimp' into them.

gimps （ plural ）