quilling

n. 网眼纱褶裥边饰, 鸣笛术

词形变化

quillings 复数 quillings

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A band of fluted muslin resembling a row of quills.

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  2. 2.

    A form of art that involves the creation of decorative designs from thin strips of curled paper.

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  3. 3.

    Quillwork.

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  4. 4.

    The practice of blowing pepper or snuff through a quill into the nose of a woman who is giving birth, to induce sneezing and diaphragmatic contractions which will induce or hasten labor.

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    2003, Anita Price Davis, North Carolina During the Great Depression: A Documentary Portrait of a Decade, page 194, To muster the strength for the final push in childbirth, midwives like Granny Lewis of Burlington, North Carolina, quilled the mother-to-be. With quilling the midwife placed the snuff on one end of the straw and blew it into the nostril of the woman at the right time; the great sneeze that resulted from the woman was accompanied by the birth of the child. Granny Lewis and others used quilling well into the 1930s (Kirby, p192).

v.
  1. 1.

    present participle and gerund of quill