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sleeking
sleeking
English
Verb
sleeking
- present participle of sleek
Noun
sleeking (plural sleekings)
- A process of making smooth or glossy.
- Shackerley Marmion
- Wherefore are all your sleekings, and your curlings,
Crispings, and paintings, and your skin made soft,
And your face smooth with ointments […]
- Wherefore are all your sleekings, and your curlings,
- 2009, William John Smith, The Behavior of Communicating: An Ethological Approach (page 66)
- Some inconspicuous fluffings and sleekings of its plumage may serve as visible displays, yet are sufficiently subtle that a human observer detects them only with difficulty […]
- Shackerley Marmion