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  • noun Plural form of shedding.

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Examples

  • She and a band of like-minded enthusiasts are doing everything they can to turn garments knitted of canine sheddings from a pet-owner's fetish into a fashion trend.

    In This Yarn With a Tail, Our Heroes Thirst for Hair of the Dog Stephanie Simon 2011

  • Around the tree, she found serpent sheddings, long decayed.

    DREAMING LIES TO CHANGE THE TRUTH • by Kaolin Fire 2008

  • *Tidmum knitsknitsknits a floofy jumper made frum Hazels floof sheddings wivakwikness*

    1st rule if u gonna share ma bed - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • The proud trunks were taken up from the silent spot which had known them through the buddings and sheddings of their growth for the foregoing hundred years; chained down like slaves to a heavy timber carriage with enormous red wheels, and four of the most powerful of

    The Woodlanders 2006

  • Somewhere in each intake of breath was the skin of long-dead men and, perhaps, the sheddings of things other than men.

    Unnatural Selection Tim Lebbon 2006

  • Somewhere in each intake of breath was the skin of long-dead men and, perhaps, the sheddings of things other than men.

    Unnatural Selection Tim Lebbon 2006

  • Somewhere in each intake of breath was the skin of long-dead men and, perhaps, the sheddings of things other than men.

    Unnatural Selection Tim Lebbon 2006

  • The guilt hung around their necks like months-old skin sheddings, and would not dislodge.

    The Demon Loren L. Coleman 2004

  • Monday, January the 28th, 2002 @ 7: 11 p.m. So, I just brushed Mia, and ended up with the same giant mound of sheddings that I normally do.

    madrigle Diary Entry madrigle 2002

  • The scent of the cedars bettered Arabian spices; their sheddings gave to the tread like harem carpets.

    The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972

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