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- noun Plural form of
tiring .
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Examples
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I know of but one depiction in all literature that possesses the splendour of implacable veracity as well as undiminished artistry; where the portrait is that of a prostitute, despite all her tirings and trappings; a depiction truly deserving to be designated a portrait: the portrait supreme of the harlot eternal -- Shakespeare's Cleopatra.
Yama: the pit Bernard Guilbert Guerney 1904
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"Seen no more, certainly; but many were the jewels and costly the tirings she sent from foreign parts to my lady's firstborn," continued
The Buccaneer A Tale S. C. Hall 1840
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