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guisings

guisings is the plural of guising.

Meaning of guising

Noun

guising (plural guisings)

  1. (historical) A festival at which people disguised themselves in costumes and often played pranks.
    • [I]n more genial ages, your Christmas Guisings, Feasts of the Ass, Abbots of Unreason, were a considerable something: sincere sport they were[.]1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter 9, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book I (The Feast of Pikes), page 47

Questions about guisings

What is guisings the plural of?
Guisings is the plural of guising.

Words near guisings in the dictionary

  1. Guisian
  2. Guisican
  3. guising
  4. Guisinger
  5. Guisingers
  6. guisings
  7. guissette
  8. guissettes
  9. guist
  10. guists
  11. Guisui

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