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Definition of Rubbings
1. rubbing [n] - See also: rubbing
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rubbings
Literary usage of Rubbings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ancient Memorial Brasses by Edward T. Beaumont (1913)
"B. HOW TO CLASSIFY AND PRESERVE rubbings Do not take a rubbing of every brass
but make a careful ... The rubbings can then be hung on a wall or kept rolled. ..."
2. Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat, Charles Otto Blagden (1906)
"These rubbings are taken from blowpipes in the Skeat Collection at Cambridge,
which are there labelled S.Ï.A., SIB, clc. ..."
3. The Bookman (1897)
"Such rubbings from ancient tombs weie common at a very early age of the world's
history, the rubbing being produced by laying paper on the inked surface of ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1873)
"... for it seems the spirit cannot leave them while their feet are on the ground.
On rubbings from St. Pafr/fA-'e Chair, Co. Mayo, Ireland. By E. 8. ..."
5. Monumental Brasses and Slabs: An Historical and Descriptive Notice of the by Charles Boutell (1847)
"... by which late Francis Douce, Esq., for £43, and by impressions, or rather
rubbings of these him was bequeathed to the British Museum, memorials, ..."
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