wreathing

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of wreath
2. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of wreathe

plural wreathings

1. The motion or pattern of something that wreaths.

   To have demolished and rebuilt the walls, would have been a very costly expedient, and as the least of two evils, the painter's brush was resorted to; here and there however, above some of the windows, the black wreathings of the smoke are still discernible through the white covering.

   1823, John Morison Duncan, Duncan's Travels, published 2007, page 256

comparative more wreathing · superlative most wreathing

1. Having a pattern that wreathes.

   The ground rose on each side like a wall, but hung with natural tapestry—the creeping plants which in the South take such graceful and wreathing forms in their foliage.

   1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter II, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 22