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Definition of Flappings
1. flapping [n] - See also: flapping
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flappings
Literary usage of Flappings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Leonardo distinguishes between the soaring flight and that made by successive
flappings, in each case defining the action of the air and the part played by ..."
2. The Apocalypse Explained According to the Spiritual Sense: In which the by Emanuel Swedenborg (1892)
"In the same, " The king of Assyria shall go through Judah, he shall overflow and
pass through, he shall reach even to the neck ; and the flappings of his ..."
3. The Birds of America by John James] [Audubon (1843)
"When fairly on wing, they proceed in a direct flight, with alternate flappings
and sailings of thirty or forty yards, the sailings more prolonged than the ..."
4. American Ornithology: Or The Natural History of the Birds of the United States by Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, Robert Jameson, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington (1831)
"The former are characterized by a certain gravity of aspect; their flight is
regular, protracted, and performed by easy flappings and sailings; ..."
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