fleshings

American  

[flesh-ingz] / ˈflɛʃ ɪŋz /

noun

(used with a plural verb)

1. flesh-colored tights.

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fleshings British  

/ ˈflɛʃɪŋz /

plural noun

1. flesh-coloured tights

2. bits of flesh scraped from the hides or skins of animals

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Etymology

Origin of fleshings

First recorded in 1830–40; flesh + (stock)ings

Example Sentences

Dealers in faded wardrobes,—merchants in tinsel and rouge de théâtre,—retailers of wigs and fleshings and all manner of stage wares, seemed one with another to have made the locality their home.

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I dress the hair and change the Paris frocks, and lace the corsets, and mend the pink silk fleshings of England's Premier Comedienne.

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The donning of fleshings for the first time is an occasion of anxiety to anyone, man or woman.

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At first a lady in fleshings doing a toe-dance on the back of a pinto percheron held his attention, but he was soon won from her by the Human Fly, who was depicted as in the act of walking on the ceiling.

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Outside the circus-booth, high up on a platform, stood the clowns in their dingy fleshings and faded scarlet trunks.

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