twiningly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

twining +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

twiningly (comparative more twiningly, superlative most twiningly)

  1. So as to twine.
    • 1843, Frances Trollope, chapter XXXII, in The Barnabys in America, or Adventures of the Widow Wedded, Paris: Published by A[nthony] and W[illiam] Galignani and Co., […], →OCLC, page 249:
      The cap she selected for the occasion was one which owed almost all its Barnabian grace to a very magnificent wreath of crimson roses, which ran twiningly and caressingly round the front of it, […]
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