twiningly

adv

twiningly

adv

Etymology From twining + -ly.

1

So as to twine.

  • The cap she selected for the occasion was one which owed almost all its Barnabian grace to a very magnificent wreath of crimson roses, which ran twiningly and caressingly round the front of it, […]1843, Frances Trollope, chapter XXXII, in The Barnabys in America, or Adventures of the Widow Wedded, Paris: Published by A[nthony] and W[illiam] Galignani and Co., […], →OCLC, page 249:

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