[f. TRIM a. + -NESS.] The quality or condition of being trim; neatness, smartness, spruceness, fineness.
1552. Huloet, Trymnes, polities, ei.
1565. Cooper, Thesaurus, Commendatur … verborum splendore et copia … commended … for trimnes & plentie of woordes.
1576. Fleming, Panopl. Epist., 240. In turning them [his verses] in a foreigne tonge, much of their worthinesse and trimnesse is diminished.
1580. Hollyband, Treas. Fr. Tong, Mignonneté, trimmenesse, neatenesse, finenesse.
1727. Bailey, vol. II., Trimness, Neatness, Gayness, Spruceness in Dress.
1820. L. Hunt, Indicator, No. 61 (1822), II. 63. To shew the trimness of her anckles.
1886. J. R. Rees, Diversions Bk.-Worm, i. 8. The very wilderness … makes the trimness of other gardens appear paltry and forbidding.
