subs. (colloquial).—1. In pl. = accessories: spec. those accompanying any dish or article of food.
1837. DICKENS, Pickwick Papers, xxxvii. A boiled leg of mutton with the usual TRIMMINGS.
1839. CAROLINE M. KIRKLAND, A New Home—Who’ll Follow? xxiii. A cup of tea with TRIMMINGS, is always in season; and is considered as the orthodox mode of welcoming any guest.
1845. The Knickerbocker Magazine, Aug., 182. [The party] luxuriated at Florence’s [eating-house] on lobster, salad and ‘TRIMMINGS.’
1848. THACKERAY, The Book of Snobs, xx. Whenever I ask a couple of dukes and a marquis or so to dine with me, I set them down to a piece of beef, or a leg of mutton and TRIMMINGS.
1860. O. W. HOLMES, The Professor at the Breakfast-Table, iii. 64. Harry, champion, by acclamation of the College heavy-weights, broad-shouldered, bull-necked, square-jawed, six feet and TRIMMINGS.
1899. R. WHITEING, No. 5 John Street, xxi. Amerikins is all right…. Theirs is a big country, too—bigger than ours; but we make it up in the TRIMMIN’S, like.
