fleshings
Americannoun
plural noun
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flesh-coloured tights
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bits of flesh scraped from the hides or skins of animals
Etymology
Origin of fleshings
First recorded in 1830–40; flesh + (stock)ings
Example Sentences
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The man before him was no other than the one he had seen next door, dressed in red fleshings as Satan.
From A Husband by Proxy by Jack Steele
Jove! with these fleshings I feel as self-conscious as an untried chorus girl.
From Man on the Box by Harold MacGrath
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.
From A Cursory History of Swearing by Julian Sharman
It is feared, however, that with the advance of fashion the principal character—who on this occasion was attired in pink fleshings draped with white chiffon—will be voted overdressed and so fail to attract.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 29, 1914 by Various
Almost as soon as he was installed a new swan came upon the waters, huge and flat-beaked, with yellow fleshings to his mandibles.
From Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England by Charles L. (Charles Latimer) Marson
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