Quilling

Quick meaning: Quilling is a noun meaning A form of art that involves the creation of decorative designs from thin strips of curled paper.

Meaning

A form of art that involves the creation of decorative designs from thin strips of curled paper.

More Meanings

1. Quillwork.
2. present participle and gerund of quill
3. (US and Canada, especially Appalachia and the Prairies) The practice of blowing pepper or snuff through a quill into the nose of a woman who is giving birth, to induce sneezing and diaphragmatic contractions which will induce or hasten labor.
4. (obsolete) A band of fluted muslin resembling a row of quills.

Example Sentences

[...] the midwife kept suggesting quilling.

In this way, quilling arts were integral to band organization and cooperation, and functioned both within and between households as items of ceremonial exchange (i.e., "crosscutting" private and public domains).

Childbirth seldom was difficult, but when it was the simple process of "quilling" (which consisted in blowing at just the right time tobacco powder through the quill into the nostril) always brought on a huge sneeze, which immediately delivered the child.

Word Forms

• quillings

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pinion, calamus, shaft, quiller, fluting, quillwork.

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