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Definition of Flattings
1. flatting [n] - See also: flatting
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flattings
Literary usage of Flattings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Englishman's Fortnight in Paris; Or, The Art of Ruining Himself There in by Jean Jacques Rutledge (1777)
"... and horrid flattings out of frightful dreams that my brain was -filled with
by the ... flattings ..."
2. A Simple Method of Modern Harmony by Carl William Grimm (1900)
"... and flattings surpass the limit of the imaginative faculty. The double-sharps
and double-flats already test it greatly, since they presuppose the single ..."
3. Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott (1900)
"... and that my supper shall presently find — No thanks to the Templar 315 though,
whose sword turned in his hand, so that the blade struck me flattings, ..."
4. The Iliad of Homer by Homer (1907)
"... and the din and flight of the Danaans began, then did he groan, and smote his
two thighs with his hands flattings, and sorrowing he spake: ..."
5. The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs by William Morris (1904)
"SIR PETER, striking him flattings with his axe. How thief! thief ! thief!
so there, fair thief, so there, St. George Guienne! glaives for the castellan ! ..."
6. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"Mechanic»' flattings Bank, 101 Mass., 109. It is true he might have had himself
made a party to the proceedings in the state court, provided he knew of ..."
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