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- noun Plural form of
silvering .
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Examples
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_ Aw shannot want thes or thi silverings either to mak mo happy then, maister.
Stephen Archer and Other Tales George MacDonald 1864
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No "single silverings" yet marked the raven ringlets which waved down his temples; and, though his years were forty and three, his appearance did not betoken him to be above thirty.
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 John Mackay Wilson 1819
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Even the colour is indeterminate and continually shifting: now you would say it was green, now gray, now blue; now tree stands above tree, like “cloud on cloud,” massed into filmy indistinctness; and now, at the wind’s will, the whole sea of foliage is shaken and broken up with little momentary silverings and shadows.
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