armings

By the end of the evening you'll have mastered dainty "upper doubles" and "armings", and the flirtatious "sidings" (which involves a lingering stare).

Love is in the (open) air Nell Card 2010

And thus was all their furniture or armings to the traces, of silke as aforesayde.

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

The edge also, after two or three armings, "burrs" a little, and thus provides a clearance naturally.

On Laboratory Arts Richard Threlfall

The declaration of Andros, and the armings of the Iroquois, now let loose on many parts of Canada, gave rise to a project as politic, perhaps, as it was daring, and such as communities when in extremity have adopted with good effect; namely, to divert invasion by directly attacking the enemies 'neighboring territories.

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

That any one saw or noticed me I doubt, and I soon became so reassured that I had more delight than fear in watching the coming and going of personages I had supposed dead a hundred years and more; the appearance at windows of faces lovely, faces sad, faces terror-stricken; the opening of casements and the dropping of billets into the garden; the flutter of disappearing robes; the faint sounds of revels from the interior of the palace; the hurrying of feet, the flashing of lights, the clink of steel, that told of partings and sudden armings, and the presence of a king that will be denied at no doors.

Complete Essays Charles Dudley Warner 1864

That any one saw or noticed me I doubt, and I soon became so reassured that I had more delight than fear in watching the coming and going of personages I had supposed dead a hundred years and more; the appearance at windows of faces lovely, faces sad, faces terror-stricken; the opening of casements and the dropping of billets into the garden; the flutter of disappearing robes; the faint sounds of revels from the interior of the palace; the hurrying of feet, the flashing of lights, the clink of steel, that told of partings and sudden armings, and the presence of a king that will be denied at no doors.

Nine Short Essays Charles Dudley Warner 1864

That any one saw or noticed me I doubt, and I soon became so reassured that I had more delight than fear in watching the coming and going of personages I had supposed dead a hundred years and more; the appearance at windows of faces lovely, faces sad, faces terror-stricken; the opening of casements and the dropping of billets into the garden; the flutter of disappearing robes; the faint sounds of revels from the interior of the palace; the hurrying of feet, the flashing of lights, the clink of steel, that told of partings and sudden armings, and the presence of a king that will be denied at no doors.

The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

Remarkably, this comes after von Hoffman, having catalogued his mentor's serial strong-armings, claims "astonish [ment] that anyone can read

David Horowitz Freedom Center 2010