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.