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  • noun Plural form of edging.

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Examples

  • She made ruffled chemises of sheer linen, with her own fine edgings and French embroidery on breast and shoulders; linen hand-made combination undersuits; and nightgowns, fairy and cobwebby, embroidered, trimmed with Irish lace.

    CHAPTER VI 2010

  • She crocheted fine edgings on the inexpensive knitted underwear she wore in winter.

    CHAPTER IV 2010

  • Using your decorative edge scissors, make edgings for the inside and outside of your little book and paste them down.

    Book From a Box 2008

  • This was a job that had some urgency because crocus and Iris reticulata bulbs are already poking up along the curved edgings.

    Finial Fun In The Knot Garden « Fairegarden 2010

  • The piping on that is amazing; it's clear enough that I could hazard a guess at what the pattern is--looks like some double-layered double-crochet fans with single-crochet edgings.

    Sunday Sweets: Gettin' Crafty 2010

  • Using your decorative edge scissors, make edgings for the inside and outside of your little book and paste them down.

    Archive 2008-12-01 2008

  • I'm currently into skirts and sun dresses, so a sun dress out of the smaller pansies, with edgings in the larger pansey fabric would be my choice.

    Three Hours Penny 2009

  • I remember its lovely ageing details: the worn red brick, the cockled window glass, the weathered sandstone edgings.

    'The Little Stranger' 2009

  • Many cultivar crosses have produced a variety of seedlings in shades of pink, red and white with and without star centers and/or pinking shear edgings.

    The Six Degrees Of Favorite Plants-SL Blogathon « Fairegarden 2009

  • Camilla devoted the afternoon to her agitated but enraptured sister, who desired her secret might spread no further, till the will of her father and uncle should decide its fate; but the loquacious Mrs. Mittin, having some cheap ribands and fine edgings to recommend to Miss Margland and Indiana, could by no means refrain from informing them, at the same time, of the discovered manuscript.

    Camilla 2008

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