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ˈdiapering, vbl. n.
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
1. The production of a diaper pattern; the covering of a surface with such a pattern.
1606Peacham Art of Drawing 34 Diapering..is..a light tracing or running over with your pen your other work when you have quite done (I mean folds shadowing and all); it chiefly serveth to counterfeit cloth of Gold, Silver, Damask-brancht, Velvet, Chamlet, &c., with what branch you list. 1882Beck Draper's Dict. 97 The application of diapering to linen cannot definitely be traced. 1882Cussans Handbk. Her. 78 Diapering was a device much practised by the Mediæval armorists..This was usually effected by covering the shield with a number of small squares, or lozenges, and filling them with a variety of simple figures.
2. A diaper pattern; diaper-work collectively.
1875Fortnum Majolica viii. 72 Covered with the most elegant arabesque diapering of foliage and flowers intertwined. 1882Cussans Handbk. Her. 81 Diapering being merely a fanciful embellishment, does not..enter into the Blazon of a Coat of Arms. |