pearlings

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English

[edit]

Etymology 1

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

pearlings

  1. plural of pearling

Etymology 2

[edit]

Probably a corruption of purflings. See purfle.

Alternative forms

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

pearlings pl (plural only)

  1. (Scotland) A kind of lace of silk or thread.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pearlings”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

[edit]