wrinkling
Verb
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Verb
- present participle of wrinkle#English|wrinkle
wrinkling (plural wrinklings)
- A pattern of wrinkles.
- 1849, Journal of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland (volume 3, page 251)
- The character of these wrinklings, when seen on the flat of the beds, forbids the idea that they are due to end on compression […]
- 1849, Journal of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland (volume 3, page 251)
- The act of wrinkling.
- 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast (novel), Penguin, 1969, Chapter 33, p. 203,
- Would she be able to appreciate the subtlety of their advances, if they made any; those little twitches and twists of the lips, those narrowings and rollings of the eye, those wrinklings of the speculative temple, that shrugging of an eye-brow at play?
- 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast (novel), Penguin, 1969, Chapter 33, p. 203,
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