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- noun Plural form of
plashing .
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Examples
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The boat slipped in across the Zattere, in and out of cool water alleys, under church windows and palings of furtive gardens, until he came to the plashings of the waves on the marble steps along the Grand Canal.
Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories Robert Herrick 1903
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The black, leathern lichens added to the gloomy aspect of the shore-rocks, on which the waves were beating -- forever beating -- with sullen plashings.
Left on Labrador or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.' 1887
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Shrieks, curses and plashings, as of bodies falling in the water succeeded; and in the confusion occasioned by the murderous fire, the first boat evidently fell off.
The Canadian Brothers, or the Prophecy Fulfilled a Tale of the Late American War — Complete John Richardson 1824
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Shrieks, curses and plashings, as of bodies falling in the water succeeded; and in the confusion occasioned by the murderous fire, the first boat evidently fell off.
The Canadian Brothers, or the Prophecy Fulfilled a Tale of the Late American War — Volume 2 John Richardson 1824
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