Definition of Hangings

1. Noun. (plural of hanging) ¹

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Definition of Hangings

1. hanging [n] - See also: hanging

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hangings

hanging fire
hanging fly
hanging geranium
hanging loop
hanging offence
hanging offense
hanging out
hanging out to dry
hanging paragraph
hanging participle
hanging participles
hanging septum
hanging tree
hanging up
hanging wall
hangings (current term)
hangis
hangman
hangman's fracture
hangman's halter
hangman's noose
hangman's nooses
hangman's rope
hangmanship
hangmen
hangnail
hangnails
hangnest
hangnests
hangout

Literary usage of Hangings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Great industries of the United States: being an historical summary of by Horace Greeley (1873)
"—MANUFACTURE OF PAPER hangings. —FIRST SALES OF WALL PAPERS IN AMERICA. ... But the manufacture of paper hangings brings within the reach ..."

2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1893)
"Item, wall hangings to match. Item, curtains for the walls, without gold, ... Item, three other hangings, with a cherry-tree, and a dame and a squire ..."

3. The Furniture of Our Forefathers by Esther Singleton, Russell Sturgis (1901)
"The walls were whitewashed within, and I did not anywhere see hangings, with which the people in this country seem in general to be little acquainted. ..."

4. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue by Robert Ellis, Great Britain Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, London Great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, 1851 (1851)
"The paper-hangings arc placed on the wall at the North-east corner of the Building, on the Ground Floor, and in the Gallery above. ..."

5. The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament by George V. Wigram (1866)
"The hangings of one side • hangings 15.on the other side (shall be) hangings ... 77»' hangings of the one side 18. answerable to the hangings o/"the court. ..."

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