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- noun Plural form of
flapping .
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Examples
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The trade, which had laid the Arangi well up under the lee of this outjutting point of Malaita, was now failing, so that she began to roll in the easy swells with crashings of sheets and tackles and thunderous flappings of her sails.
CHAPTER IV 2010
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To cross the deck from the chart-house to the break of the poop was no slight feat, but I managed it and hung on to the railing while the wind stung my flesh with the flappings of my pyjamas.
CHAPTER XXX 2010
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Collared doves bill and coo and make their amorous flappings, but they do that all year round.
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In the case of Naamah's Kiss, it was hundreds of book flappings.
Online Signing: Jacqueline Carey - Suvudu - Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, and Games 2009
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Wright issue which appaered every night and his current flappings about Ayers I realize I will never watch his program.
Fox Program on Obama Becomes Fodder for Robocall - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Have we truly become a society of people who vote on the basis of tabloid journalism, twisted truths and the sensational flappings of the news media?
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They entered its vast and silent halls, frightening the owls and bats that fled before them with hideous hootings and flappings of wings, and passing by a multiplicity of mouldy stairs, dank reeking roofs, and rickety corridors, at last came to an apartment which, dismal and dismantled as it was, appeared to be in rather better condition than the neighboring chambers, and they therefore selected it as their place of rest for the night.
Burlesques 2006
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They entered its vast and silent halls, frightening the owls and bats that fled before them with hideous hootings and flappings of wings, and passing by a multiplicity of mouldy stairs, dank reeking roofs, and rickety corridors, at last came to an apartment which, dismal and dismantled as it was, appeared to be in rather better condition than the neighboring chambers, and they therefore selected it as their place of rest for the night.
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The air was full of flappings and pipings, of void, gusty shouts and noises; it buffeted him and confused him; ever and again his attention became rigid — a blind and deaf balancing and clutching.
The War in the Air Herbert George 2006
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The way of a shark, signaled to and drawn by the flappings of its prey.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005
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