pinking

Decoration by adding holes or scalloping.

Noun

  1. Decoration by adding holes or scalloping.
    • These rufflings, and pinkings, and patchings, will only make us hated by all the wives of our neighbours. - 1766, Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield:

Forms

pinkings

Derived

pinking iron pinking shears

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of pink