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pearlins

pearlins is the plural of pearlin.

pearlins is the alternative form of pearlings.

Meaning of pearlin

Noun

pearlin (plural pearlins)

  1. A protein found in nacre

Meaning of pearlings

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, […]...

Questions about pearlins

What is pearlins the plural of?
Pearlins is the plural of pearlin.

Words near pearlins in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pearlins (page history and authors); pearlin (page history and authors); pearlings (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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