queen
noun
a female sovereign or monarch.
was queening
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past progressiveof queen.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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She said he had called to leave me a message—an invitation to dine, I think—and that Scipione, maliciously or ingenuously, had shown him into the room where she was queening it in her borrowed finery.
From The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Maurice Henry Hewlett
She was queening it, apparently, over a little band of awed masculine worshippers.
From Active Service by Stephen Crane
I took little Fay with me, for no one seemed to care for her, while Amy was queening it with all the Wheatfields, and Letty was equally happy with her foster mother.
From Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume by Charlotte Mary Yonge
