crocketing
crocketing noun: ornamentation with crockets.
Noun
crocketing (countable and uncountable, plural crocketings)
- ornamentation with crockets
- There is no lace work , no crocketing , no tracery , no construction to speak of1869, John Ruskin, Flamboyant Architecture in the Valley of the Somme
- And there, in the centre of the picture, with its carved back scarcely three feet below the soil, is the throne of the ancient king, with the lines of its strange crocketing fresh and unchipped.1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 2
Forms of crocketing
| plural | crocketings |
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Origin of crocketing
From crocket + -ing.
Questions about crocketing
- What does crocketing mean?
- Crocketing means ornamentation with crockets.
- What part of speech is crocketing?
- Crocketing is a noun.
- What is the plural of crocketing?
- The plural of crocketing is crocketings.
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