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pearlings

pearlings is the plural of pearling.

Meaning of pearling

Noun

pearling (countable and uncountable, plural pearlings)

  1. The process by which grain is pearled.
    • The barley underwent three pearlings in a pearler.
  2. The process of hunting for pearls.
    • fishing and pearling craft

Noun

pearlings pl (plural only)

  1. (Scotland, archaic, plural, plural-only) A kind of lace of silk or thread, considered elegant at the time.
    • And d'ye hear, Gudyill, let Jenny Dennison slip on her pearlings to walk before my niece and me, and the three women to walk behind; and bid my niece attend me instantly.1816, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter VIII, in Tales of My Landlord, […], volume II (Old Mortality), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for William Blackwood, […]...

Forms of pearlings

alternative formpearlins

Origin of pearlings

Probably a corruption of purflings. See purfle.

Questions about pearlings

What does pearlings mean?
Pearlings means a kind of lace of silk or thread, considered elegant at the time.
What is pearlings the plural of?
Pearlings is the plural of pearling.
What part of speech is pearlings?
Pearlings is a noun.

Words near pearlings in the dictionary

  1. pearlike
  2. pearlin
  3. Pearline
  4. pearliness
  5. pearling
  6. pearlings
  7. pearlins
  8. pearlised
  9. pearlish
  10. pearlite
  11. pearlites

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