fleshings

[ flesh-ingz ]

noun

, (used with a plural verb)

1. flesh-colored tights.

fleshings

/ ˈflɛʃɪŋz /

plural noun

1. flesh-coloured tights
2. bits of flesh scraped from the hides or skins of animals

Word History and Origins

Origin of fleshings¹

First recorded in 1830–40; flesh + (stock)ings

Example Sentences

For instance, we might be Bacchanals in pink fleshings and vine leaves.”

From Project Gutenberg

How strange it was that she should be in the confessional at three o'clock, and two hours later perform in her fleshings before a crowd of people!

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She was as femininely alluring amid the bald disclosures of unblushing fleshings as amid the tantalizing exasperations of swishing draperies.

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Dealers in faded wardrobes,—merchants in tinsel and rouge de théâtre,—retailers of wigs and fleshings and all manner of stage wares, seemed one with another to have made the locality their home.

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I dress the hair and change the Paris frocks, and lace the corsets, and mend the pink silk fleshings of England's Premier Comedienne.

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