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enclosings

enclosings is the plural of enclosing.

Meaning of enclosing

Noun

enclosing (plural enclosings)

  1. That which encloses.
    • And he made the breastplate of cunning work, like the work of the ephod; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. […] And they set in it four rows of stones: […] the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were enclosed in ouches of gold in their enclosings.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 39:10-13
  2. The act or situation by which something is enclosed.
    • Duane Duck is a play of boxes, explicit and implicit, frangible or firm; indeed, Duane Duck is a play about boxes, a performance of all manner of relations to enclosings.1995, Frederick Garber, Repositionings, page 131

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Questions about enclosings

What is enclosings the plural of?
Enclosings is the plural of enclosing.

Words near enclosings in the dictionary

  1. enclosers
  2. encloses
  3. enclosest
  4. encloseth
  5. enclosing
  6. enclosings
  7. enclosure
  8. enclosures
  9. enclothe
  10. enclothed
  11. enclothed cognition

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