fencing
noun
the art, practice, or sport in which an épée, foil, or saber is used for defense and attack.
fencings
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pluralof fencing.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Preventive fencings with the foul intent Occult, by him observed and foiled betimes, Let fool historians chronicle as crimes.
From Poems — Volume 3 by George Meredith
His blockings, hedgings, and fencings have spoiled the expanse of hillside and vale in much the same manner as in Albion.
From The Cathedrals of Southern France by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
As Pascal to Escobar, so is Palestrina to Master Hugues; quibbles, shams, fencings with truth, overlay God’s gold with the cobwebs of tradition, and must be brushed away.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe
These word fencings had begun, of course, as a child would naturally have begun them, with the stilted sentences and high-flown remarks which she had lifted from Grimm’s Fairy Tales.
From The Rustle of Silk by Cosmo Hamilton
Which infinitely quickens the shadowy rumorings and Diplomatic fencings of mankind.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 11 by Thomas Carlyle
