Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of array
nounarraying (plural arrayings)
plural arrayings
- The act of clothing or adorning.
The oratory closed, the dormitory became the scene of ablutions, arrayings and bedizenings curiously elaborate. To me it was, and ever must be an enigma, how they contrived to spend so much time in doing so little.
1853, Charlotte Brontë, Villette
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