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Webster 1828 Edition

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Cleaning and composing the feathers, as fowls.

preening

preening ‎(plural preenings)

A grooming or posturing.
- 2008 April 1, Alastair Macaulay, “Miami Spice: Saucy Club Crawlers Flirt, Sulk and Spar to a Crossover Beat”, in New York Times:
  Katia Carranza, Jennifer Carlynn Kronenberg and Callie Manning are asked to do standard Hispanic preenings: hands on hips, placing weight on one leg while displaying the other thigh.