Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A close-fitting flesh-colored garment or dress for the whole body or a large part of it, intended to represent the natural skin and to give the wearer the appearance of being unclothed: used on the stage: as, silk fleshings; a suit of fleshings.
- In leather manufacturing, the substance scraped from hides in the operation of removing the flesh from them.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural Flesh-colored tights, worn by actors and dancers.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Flesh -coloured tights (worn by actors or dancers)
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Examples
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Our friend the Conte Leandro, for instance, having determined to appear at the Circolo ball in the character of Dante -- which, for a poet at Ravenna, was a very proper and natural selection -- presented himself at the Palazzo Castelmare in that of Apollo -- an equally well-imagined presentation; had it not been that the happy intellectual analogy was less striking to the vulgar eye, than the remarkable exhibition of knock-knees and bow - legs resulting from the use of the "fleshings;" which constituted an indispensable portion of the god's attire.
A Siren Thomas Adolphus Trollope 1851
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Sixty-nine years seem impossible when I see his single, slimpsy garments pressed like fleshings against his form and bulged by heavy bone and huge muscle.
CHAPTER XIX 2010
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I had come as the Prince of Darkness of course and come across a fetching Succubus in very tight fleshings.
The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004
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I had come as the Prince of Darkness of course and come across a fetching Succubus in very tight fleshings.
The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004
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It was her shape that caught my eye, for she was in the tight fleshings that ballet-dancers wear, and I was admiring her legs when she turned in profile and to my astonishment I recognised Rosanna.
Royal Flash Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1970
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It is feared, however, that with the advance of fashion the principal character -- who on this occasion was attired in pink fleshings draped with white chiffon -- will be voted overdressed and so fail to attract.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 29, 1914 Various
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They pointed out to him that it was absolutely essential to have none but exemplary characters in the ballet; but they did not tell him where he would procure females who would have no objection to exhibiting their legs in pink silk fleshings.
The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert Horace Wyndham
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Animal glue is made of bones and trimmings, cuttings and fleshings from hides and skins of animals.
Handwork in Wood William Noyes
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The man before him was no other than the one he had seen next door, dressed in red fleshings as Satan.
A Husband by Proxy Jack Steele
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At first glance I could only make out a confused chaos, impossible to describe, amidst which my aunt was bustling about clad in pink fleshings.
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