furrowing

noun

furrowing

noun

1

A furrowed pattern.

On his bleached worn face are ploughed the furrowings of one hundred and twenty years.1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter X, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book I (The Feast of Pikes), page 54:

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