pinking

noun

pinking

noun

1

Decoration by adding holes or scalloping.

These rufflings, and pinkings, and patchings, will only make us hated by all the wives of our neighbours.1766, Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield:

Derived terms: pinking iron, pinking shears

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