unfurling

English

Verb

unfurling

1. present participle and gerund of unfurl

Noun

unfurling (plural unfurlings)

1. The act by which something is unfurled.
   • 1849, Christopher Wordsworth, Lectures on the Apocalypse, page 466:

     Are there not here some sounds of a gathering together of armies, some blasts of the trumpets of war, some unfurlings of hostile banners, some noise of chariots and tramplings of horses rushing to the battle?