waxing
noun
the act or process of applying wax, as in polishing or filling.
waxings
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pluralof waxing.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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“There is a place in newspaper food sections and food magazines for cheery, revisionist, nostalgic waxings; for songs of dew-kissed baby lettuces; for Proustian glances back,” she writes.
From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2022
He arranged for them to get eyebrow waxings and manicures on the day before his Sept.
From Time Magazine Archive
What is the reason for these waxings and wanings?
From Education: How Old The New by James J. Walsh
Its waxings and wanings were marked by curious "trepidations" of brightness extremely perplexing to theory.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
I might tell of waxings and waning of love between us, but the whole was waning.
From Tono Bungay by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
