Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name of several varieties of apple: one is distinguished as the winter queening.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) Any one of several kinds of apples, as
summer queening ,scarlet queening , andearly queening . An apple called thequeening was cultivated in England two hundred years ago.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
queen . - noun Any of several kinds of
apple .
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Examples
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Charli looks at the crowd gathered around the granite countertops: her rodeo queen coach, Kathy Spencer; Kathy's 25-year-old daughter, Tara, a 2006 Miss Rodeo Colorado and top 10 finalist from the Miss Rodeo America competition; Kathy's husband, Dave, who works in construction but, after spending nine years squiring Tara through the rodeo queen world, can be called a queening expert himself; and Chris Wagner, a horse farrier, who lives with the Spencers.
Ten-gallon tiara: The Miss Rodeo America pageant Darragh Johnson 2010
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Charli looks at the crowd gathered around the granite countertops: her rodeo queen coach, Kathy Spencer; Kathy's 25-year-old daughter, Tara, a 2006 Miss Rodeo Colorado and top 10 finalist from the Miss Rodeo America competition; Kathy's husband, Dave, who works in construction but, after spending nine years squiring Tara through the rodeo queen world, can be called a queening expert himself; and Chris Wagner, a horse farrier, who lives with the Spencers.
Ten-gallon tiara: The Miss Rodeo America pageant Darragh Johnson 2010
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I also like the reference to "queening" and the Banksy Queen Victoria graphic ....) "
Progressive Bloggers Driving Fast on Loose Gravel 2009
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The only way I can see to stop this from happening is for White to promote the f-pawn, queening with check.
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But we also have to take into account the king position and – here's the problem – the white king is on the back rank and opposed by Black's king, which means that queening first doesn't help because when Black promotes it is mate.
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It concludes with an invitation for Levi to meet "the local gays" for a night of "drag queening" at a bar in Anchorage.
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Over time, I subtly worked at "de-queening" myself, at least in terms of certain mannerisms.
Paul Katz: Self-Aware With Self-Esteem: Week 12 of 'Mental Muscle' Boot Camp 2010
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He has also spotted how White might win: queening with check on the f8 square.
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After 2 Kc2, Black has 2 ... b3+ to deflect the king from the queening square d1 and it's all over: 3 Kxb3 d1 = Q or 3 Kd1 b2 with the same result.
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Donna offers guidelines for queening, but the actual process is always personal, always individual, always feels like we're discovering something no one else has ever done.
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