• Wreathing

    Verb

    1. Present participle of wreath

    Full definition of wreathing

    Noun

    wreathing

    (plural wreathings)
    1. The motion or pattern of something that wreaths.
      • John Duncan, Duncan's TravelsTo 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.
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