Meaning of Cornering | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A piece of decorative work forming a corner.
2. The act by which somebody is cornered.

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Examples

“We have been informed that these cornerings are rarely used when the ceilings are not decorated […]”

“1809–1812, Maria Edgeworth, "Manoeuvring", in Tales of Fashionable Life Aside; ay, ay, but take care, I advise you, of her asides, and her whisperings, and her cornerings, and her inuendoes, and semiconfidences, lest your own happiness, my dear, unsuspecting, enthusiastic daughter, should be the sacrifice.”

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