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  • noun A fold or pinched bunch of fabric caused by the shrinkage of one layer among many.
  • verb Present participle of pucker.

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Examples

  • Unfortunately the puckering is really distracting and it's not Althea's best work.

    Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 12 Recap: Let's Getty It Over With Una LaMarche 2010

  • The girl regarded him gravely, a puzzled expression puckering her face.

    The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest 1921

  • This was the same man who had coolly stolen wife and property from his own brother and then had jeered at him, probably with that same expression puckering about his evil, gray eyes.

    The Rainy Day Railroad War Holman Day 1900

  • Turn it over and pin the back making sure there is no puckering which is death to a denim mini.

    DIY: Upcycle Old Jeans Into A Sexy Mini 2008

  • Each method has its advantages; in the frame it is perhaps easier to get good technique, for difficulties such as puckering the material, irregular stitching, and so on, are more easily avoided, also it is more possible to see the effect of the whole whilst the part progresses.

    Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving Grace Christie

  • He didn’t often see Major Keith dressed in anything except his gardening gear, and today he looked particularly natty—tweed suit with regimental tie, shoes polished to a looking-glass shine, neatly creased trilby in his hand, and an anxious expression puckering his round face.

    All Shall Be Well Deborah Darden Crombie 1994

  • He didn’t often see Major Keith dressed in anything except his gardening gear, and today he looked particularly natty—tweed suit with regimental tie, shoes polished to a looking-glass shine, neatly creased trilby in his hand, and an anxious expression puckering his round face.

    All Shall Be Well Deborah Darden Crombie 1994

  • He didn’t often see Major Keith dressed in anything except his gardening gear, and today he looked particularly natty—tweed suit with regimental tie, shoes polished to a looking-glass shine, neatly creased trilby in his hand, and an anxious expression puckering his round face.

    All Shall Be Well Deborah Darden Crombie 1994

  • The respiration becomes more painful; the head is more extended; the eyes are brilliant; every expiration is accompanied with a grunt, and by a kind of puckering of the angles of the lips; the cough becomes smaller, more suppressed, and more painful; the tongue protrudes from the mouth, and a frothy mucus is abundantly discharged; the breath becomes offensive; a purulent fluid of a bloody color escapes from the nostrils; diarrhoea, profuse and fetid, succeeds to the constipation; the animal becomes rapidly weaker; he is a complete skeleton, and at length he dies.

    Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure Robert Jennings

  • How raised flowers, leaves, plumes, baskets, bunches of fruit, even animal and bird shapes, could be shown in bas-relief on these quilt blocks without hopelessly 'puckering' the material, none of us can imagine. "

    Quilts Their Story and How to Make Them 1907

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