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- noun Plural form of
clapping .
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Examples
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Brock remembers her parents doing what she calls "clappings" on him, which meant laying him on an incline, cupping their hands and palpitating his ...
NWAOnline.com stories < 2010
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Though fat and forty, and phlegmatic of temperament, between exclamations and hand-clappings her waking existence was mostly explosive.
CHAPTER 7 2010
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Cheers and hand-clappings stormed up, and she heard affectionate cries of "Oh, you, Joe!"
Chapter 4 2010
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Cape Town, was greeted with ululation, Kudu horn sounds and endless clappings as he was anointed during a church service held at the ST
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Mr. George produces his present, which is greeted with admiring leapings and clappings by the young family, and with a species of reverential admiration by Mr. Bagnet.
Bleak House 2007
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Here my sister, after a fit of clappings and screamings, beat her hands upon her bosom and upon her knees, and threw her cap off, and pulled her hair down, — which were the last stages on her road to frenzy.
Great Expectations 2007
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You don't need to know the precise number of times they clapped and the lengths of the various clappings.
Archive 2006-01-01 Ann Althouse 2006
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The poem, still repeated with ritual hand-clappings around Arab campfires, begins: "They [the Christians] are coming to claim the debt for DeCou."
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Whatever was fiercest and wildest in nature and boldest in art was there, and now the house went mad with its hand-clappings and table-hammerings and deep-throated
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Then he paused, not remembering what was to come next; but the sentiment which he had uttered appeared to his auditors to be so good in itself and so well delivered, that they filled up a long pause with continued clappings and exclamations.
The Duke's Children 2004
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