Did you mayhaps mean pearling?
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“I can take a spell o 'pearlin' or a tradin 'cruise or two”
“_But the pearlin 'abune her bree_, without the lace above her brow.”
“a year the fishers didn't dare visit the pearlin 'beds.”
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ruzuzu "Lace made of silk or other thread. It also seems to have meant ‘fine linen or cambric’"
--Century Dictionary Jan 4, 2011