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parings

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n. pl.1.Parts that are pared or cut off.
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parings
plural noun peelings, skins, slices, clippings, peel, fragments, shavings, shreds, flakes, rind, snippets, slivers You can boil up the vegetable parings to make stock.
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parings [ˈpɛərɪŋz] NPL [of fruit, vegetables] → peladuras fpl; [of nails] → trozos mpl
parings
pl (of nails) → abgeschnittene Fingernägel pl; (of apple) → Schalen pl


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Downright English am I, Sir Knight, and downright English was my patron St Dunstan, and scorned oc and oui, as he would have scorned the parings of the devil's hoof---downright English alone shall be sung in this cell.
Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context
Still, when he had looked back from the gate, he had seen his mother kneeling among the po- tato parings.
The Red Badge of Courage by Crane, Stephen View in context
They used to come round my door at dusk to nibble the potato parings which I had thrown out, and were so nearly the color of the ground that they could hardly be distinguished when still.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
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