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pinkings

pinkings is the plural of pinking.

Meaning of pinking

Noun

pinking (plural pinkings)

  1. Decoration by adding holes or scalloping.
    • These rufflings, and pinkings, and patchings, will only make us hated by all the wives of our neighbours.1766, Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield

Questions about pinkings

What is pinkings the plural of?
Pinkings is the plural of pinking.

Words near pinkings in the dictionary

  1. pinking
  2. pinking iron
  3. pinking irons
  4. pinking shears
  5. pinking up
  6. pinkings
  7. Pinkins
  8. Pinkinses
  9. pinkish
  10. pinkishly
  11. pinkishness

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