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Definition of Red-rimmed
1. Adjective. Rimmed with red. "Your red-rimmed eyes reveal that you have been crying"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Red-rimmed
Literary usage of Red-rimmed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of American Red Cross Nursing by Lavinia L. Dock (1922)
"... the patients had gathered there, mothers with gaunt, paper-gray babies; children
with red-rimmed eyes sore with the world-wide diseases of bad parentage ..."
2. Poet Lore (1907)
"He puts off his heavy wooden clogs, stares around with red-rimmed, watery eyes,
at the same time muttering to himself and opening and closing moist, ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1842)
"He was a short fat man, with a head so void of hair that it looked like the egg
of an ostrich, and a beetle-brow, beneath which glowed a pair of red-rimmed, ..."
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