Crossword-Solution: FLESHINGS 9 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

But in the outrageous bravery of velvet jacket and flapped hat, with trousers that were more accurately described as fleshings, a white handkerchief cavalierly knotted at his neck, a shock of Olympian curls upon his brow, and his feet shod through all weathers in the slenderest of Molière shoes—you had but to look at him and you knew you were in the presence of a Great Creature.

Sixty-nine years seem impossible when I see his single, slimpsy garments pressed like fleshings against his form and bulged by heavy bone and huge muscle.

ANGELS I AND II So now, to-night, in slashing old sentences, Hear them speak,--gravely these, those with gay-heartedness,-- Midst their admonishments little conceiving how Scarlet the scroll that the years will unwind! SPIRIT OF THE PITIES [to the Spirit of the Years] Let us put on and suffer for the nonce The feverish fleshings of Humanity, And join the pale debaters here convened.

The dress is splendid! Red tunic, tiger-skin over shoulder, helmet, shield, lance, fleshings, sandals, hair down, and as much cork to your eyebrows as you like.” Christie certainly did look wild, for Lucy had burst into the room like a small hurricane, and her rapid words rattled about the listeners’ ears as if a hail-storm had followed the gust.

The fluffy, abbreviated tarletan skirts of two women bareback riders who stood not more than two yards away seemed tawdry and flimsy at close range; the pink fleshings of the world's greatest somersault artist looked rumpled and fuzzy; the zouave costume of the lady rope-walker lost its satiny sheen through propinquity; the clown was dusty and greasy and stuffy.