clappings
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- plural of clapping
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
- And thus, through the serene tranquillities of the tropical sea, among waves whose hand-clappings were suspended by exceeding rapture, Moby Dick moved on, still withholding from sight the full terrors of his submerged trunk […]