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shawlings

shawlings is the plural of shawling.

Meaning of shawling

Noun

shawling (plural shawlings)

  1. An act of wrapping in a shawl.
    • I assure you, if I were Hazlewood I should look on his compliments, his bowings, his cloakings, his shawlings, and his handings with some little suspicion; and truly I think Hazlewood does so too at some odd times.1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown...

Questions about shawlings

What is shawlings the plural of?
Shawlings is the plural of shawling.

Words near shawlings in the dictionary

  1. shawlette
  2. shawlettes
  3. Shawley
  4. Shawleys
  5. shawling
  6. shawlings
  7. shawlless
  8. shawllike
  9. shawls
  10. shawlwise
  11. shawm

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