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wreathings

wreathings is the plural of wreathing.

Meaning of wreathing

Noun

wreathing (plural wreathings)

  1. The motion or pattern of something that wreaths.
    • To have demolished and rebuilt the walls, would have been a very costly expedient, and as the least of two evils, the painter's brush was resorted to; here and there however, above some of the windows, the black wreathings of the smoke are still discernible through the white covering.1823, John Morison Duncan, Duncan's Travels, published 2007, page 256

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Questions about wreathings

What is wreathings the plural of?
Wreathings is the plural of wreathing.

Words near wreathings in the dictionary

  1. wreathers
  2. wreathes
  3. wreatheth
  4. wreathing
  5. wreathingly
  6. wreathings
  7. wreathless
  8. wreathlet
  9. wreathlets
  10. wreathlike
  11. wreathmaker

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wreathings (page history and authors); wreathing (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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