quiltings
- plural of quilting.
Example Sentences
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She answered quickly: "Yes, but it's awful lonely for me, for I was born in Worcester; still I don't mind as long as we have plenty of quiltings."
From Home Life in Colonial Days by Earle, Alice Morse
And they give quiltings and they'd have a ring play.
From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4 by Work Projects Administration
I was frequently invited to quiltings, apple parings, huskings, etc.; but I never dared to go, lest I should be expected to have something to say to some of the feminine portion of the company.
From The Fatal Glove by Augusta, Clara
De white folks had cotton-pickings, corn-shuckings and quiltings.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 by Work Projects Administration
Then the quiltings and the dances— How my feet were wont to fly, While the moon peeped through the barn chinks From her stately place on high.
From The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar by Howells, William Dean
