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Definition of Bowings
1. bowing [n] - See also: bowing
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bowings
Literary usage of Bowings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mastery of the Bow and Bowing Subtleties: A Text-book for Teachers and by Paul Stoeving (1920)
"While smoothness, breadth or sustained delicacy were the outstanding features of
the detach^ in its various forms, those of the family of bowings to which ..."
2. Illustrated Notes on English Church History by Charles Arthur Lane (1898)
"... as I have a head to lift up to Heaven—so long as I have an eye to lift up to
Heaven! For these are corporal bowings, and my Saviour shall have them. ..."
3. The Ceremonies of the Mass by William McGarvey, Charles Philip Augustus Burnett (1905)
"Of the bowings: bowings are of two kinds, of the body and of the head; they are
either profound or moderate. When the Priest is at the Epistle side or in ..."
4. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1914)
"All bowings naturally divide themselves into two forms, the whole and the half
bows, one of which is representative of slow bowings and the other of ..."
5. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Comprising the History, Institutions by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"... bowings of the head. After this introduction the office proceeds as follows : —
Ps. 50 f ... And now ; three Alleluias, and three bowings of the head. ..."
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