wreathingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

wreathing (plural wreathings)

1. 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.

形容詞

wreathing (comparative more wreathing, superlative most wreathing)

1. 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.

派生語

• wreathingly

アナグラム

• nightwear, rethawing