Accessaries, furnishings.
1840. With us, be it known to new comers, whatever be the hour of the day, a cup of tea with trimmings, is always in season; and is considered as the orthodox mode of welcoming any guest, from the clergyman to “the maid that does the meanest chores.”—Mrs. Kirkland, ‘A New Home,’ p. 160. (Italics in the original.)
1842. Aided by their usual accompaniments of salad, or as we Gothamites facetiously term them, ‘trimmings,’ your oyster fried is no contemptible ‘finish’ to the protracted evening sitting.—Knick. Mag., xx. 227 (Sept.). (Italics in the original.)
1851. Yer uncle Kit’s been down to git the trimmins for niece Susy’s weddin.—J. J. Hooper, ‘Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs,’ &c., p. 166.
