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Definition of Piercings
1. piercing [n] - See also: piercing
Lexicographical Neighbors of Piercings
Literary usage of Piercings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Essay on the Origin and Development of Window Tracery in England: With by Edward Augustus Freeman (1851)
"In this, instead of a central line from which the piercings are thrown off, the
two principal piercings converge more or less horizontally from the sides to ..."
2. The Neolithic and Bronze Ages by Sara Anderson Immerwahr (1971)
"3); corresponding piercings in foot-ring. See also pp. 5—6. ... Two pairs of
corresponding piercings in the foot-ring, one pair not quite pierced through. ..."
3. Colonial Furniture in America by Luke Vincent Lockwood (1913)
"The fronts of the stiles and of the legs are cut in Gothic designs, and at the
base of the splat are two quatrefoil piercings with a trefoil between. ..."
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