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from The Century Dictionary.
- To pink; cut in scallops or pierce with small holes.
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Examples
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And we saw some who slashed and pinked their skins to open a passage to the fat, that it might swell out at the slits and gashes which they made; neither more nor less than the shit-breech fellows in our country bepink and cut open their breeches that the taffety on the inside may stand out and be puffed up.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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And we saw some who slashed and pinked their skins to open a passage to the fat, that it might swell out at the slits and gashes which they made; neither more nor less than the shit-breech fellows in our country bepink and cut open their breeches that the taffety on the inside may stand out and be puffed up.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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And we saw some who slashed and pinked their skins to open a passage to the fat, that it might swell out at the slits and gashes which they made; neither more nor less than the shit-breech fellows in our country bepink and cut open their breeches that the taffety on the inside may stand out and be puffed up.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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