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Quilling

To pierce or be pierced with quills.

📖 Definitions of "Quilling"

verb
  1. 1

    To pierce or be pierced with quills.

  2. 2

    To write.

  3. 3

    To form fabric into small, rounded folds.

  4. 4

    To decorate with quillwork.

noun
  1. 1

    A band of fluted muslin resembling a row of quills.

  2. 2

    A form of art that involves the creation of decorative designs from thin strips of curled paper.

  3. 3

    Quillwork.

  4. 4

    The practice of blowing pepper or snuff through a quill into the nose of a woman who is giving birth, to induce sneezing and diaphragmatic contractions which will induce or hasten labor.

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