pearlings

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noun

A kind of lace of silk or thread, considered elegant at the time.

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Meanings

pearlings1

noun
  1. pluralplural of pearling

pearlings2

nounpearlings pl (plural only)

alternative pearlins

  1. Scotlandarchaicpluralplural onlyA kind of lace of silk or thread, considered elegant at the time.

    And d'ye hear, Gudyill, let Jenny Dennison slip on her pearlings to walk before my niece and me, and the three women to walk behind; and bid my niece attend me instantly.

    1816, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter VIII, in Tales of My Landlord, […], volume II (Old Mortality), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for William Blackwood, […]; London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 217

Origin

Probably a corruption of purflings. See purfle.

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Anagrams

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APA

pearlings. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pearlings

MLA

“pearlings.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pearlings. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pearlings,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pearlings.

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