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- noun Plural form of
plating .
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Examples
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She would come in early and they would do test runs, trying out ingredients, experimenting with platings.
The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011
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These rustic ingredients are then turned into delicate, artful platings of a highly original take on haute cuisine.
What's the Next Big Restaurant? Katy McLaughlin 2011
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She would come in early and they would do test runs, trying out ingredients, experimenting with platings.
The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011
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The mourner made him no direct answer; but endeavouring, with a trembling and unskilful hand, to undo the springs of the visor and gorget, said, in a tone of impatient grief, “Oh, he would recover instantly could I but give him air — land and living, life and honour, would I give for the power of undoing these cruel iron platings that suffocate him!”
The Monastery 2008
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Highly architected platings earn my artistic appreciation, but they quietly annoy me.
Delicious Dozen Gifts for the Butcher, the Baker, the Espresso Taker 2007
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Donolly and Grade are having quite a job with the iron platings on the rudder, but should finish the cutting to – morrow.
South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917 2006
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It overflowed the Athenian platings, and but for Hipparchos, we three poets would have had to take our chance on the slopes; it is not every patron will displace minor nobles for bards.
The Praise Singer Renault, Mary 1978
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The principal use of tin is for protective platings on household utensils and in wrappings of tin-foil.
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Indians never shod ponies, and no army ever invaded Pickens County, and these iron platings were designed for the hoofs of the largest horses and not for Indian ponies, and Mr. Richardson and his neighbors were always puzzled about the origin of the queer old rust-eaten horseshoes.
Fagots from the campfire, Louis J Dupre 1881
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Two or three coal cars stood on a siding, near a detached engine, where one man was lighting the lamp before the reflector of the headlight, and another, who whistled merrily, burnished the brass and copper platings.
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