pinking
English
Noun
pinking (plural pinkings)
- Decoration by adding holes or scalloping.
- 1766, Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield
- These rufflings, and pinkings, and patchings, will only make us hated by all the wives of our neighbours.
- 1766, Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield
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