Sample Sentences & Example Usage. Maria Grazia Chiuri: It's not the famous postcard that you normally have of Rome, there's something more intimate, and that's the portrait we like. We also think couture is more intimate because there's a relationship between the client and the atelier. It's one of a kind and the best limited edition you could have.
pip (third-person singular simple present pips, present participle pipping, simple past and past participle pipped) 1  To get the better of; to defeat by a narrow margin He led throughout the race but was pipped at the post. 2  To hit with a gunshot The hunter managed to pip three ducks from his blind.
rasp. 1. to scrape or abrade with or as if with a rough instrument. 2. to grate upon or irritate: The sound rasped his nerves. 3. to utter with a grating sound: to rasp out an order. 4. to scrape or grate.. 1. A coarse file with sharp, pointed projections. 2. The act of filing with a rasp.