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sightenings

sightenings is the plural of sightening.

Meaning of sightening

Noun

sightening (plural sightenings)

  1. A colour used temporarily to enable a calico-printer to judge the pattern.

Questions about sightenings

What is sightenings the plural of?
Sightenings is the plural of sightening.

Words near sightenings in the dictionary

  1. sighted in
  2. sightedness
  3. sighten
  4. sightened
  5. sightening
  6. sightenings
  7. sightens
  8. sighter
  9. sighters
  10. sightful
  11. sightfulness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sightenings (page history and authors); sightening (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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