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Definition of Purlings
1. purling [n] - See also: purling
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purlings
Literary usage of Purlings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Antefix Papers: Papers on Art Educational Subjects, Read at the Weekly by Charles Callahan Perkins, Massachusetts Art Teachers' Association (1875)
"... or sewn in on the ground ; of late years, sprigs, when made, are sewn on paper,
and joined either on the pillow by purlings, ..."
2. A Glossary of Liturgical and Ecclesiastical Terms by Frederick George Lee (1877)
"purlings.—1. The embroidered portions of an ecclesia.-- tical vestment. 2.
The ornamental divisions between the separate parts of church-hangings or ..."
3. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"With white threads also were the " purlings " above mentioned made, by means of
leaden bobbins or ..."
4. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"... and beneath all the intervening pages the river flows, emerging ever and anon
with whisperings, babblings, and gurglings, with purlings, trillings, ..."
5. The Dial edited by Francis Fisher Browne (1916)
"... she continues her rhythmical purlings while her slaves scrape her with a
strigil and rub her with essence of saffron flowers and jasmine ; she sings her ..."
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