wreathing
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]wreathing
- present participle and gerund of wreath
- present participle and gerund of wreathe
Noun
[edit]wreathing (plural wreathings)
- The motion or pattern of something that wreaths.
- 1823, John Morison Duncan, Duncan's Travels, published 2007, page 256:
- 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.
Adjective
[edit]wreathing (comparative more wreathing, superlative most wreathing)
- Having a pattern that wreathes.
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter II, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 22:
- 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.