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View synonyms for tatting
tatting
[ tat-ing ]
noun
- the act or process of making a kind of knotted lace of cotton or linen thread with a shuttle.
- such lace.
tatting
/ ˈtætɪŋ /
noun
- an intricate type of lace made by looping a thread of cotton or linen by means of a hand shuttle
- the act or work of producing this
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Word History and Origins
Origin of tatting1
First recorded in 1835–45; origin uncertain
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Word History and Origins
Origin of tatting1
C19: of unknown origin
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Example Sentences
An opportunity given of looking on while one was embroidering, crocheting, or making tatting, and the process was her own.
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Not one of the tatting-and-tea kind, but an impressive, bustling old girl, with a double chin.
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We submit that a well-trained Preacheress should spend the summer vacation sitting on the hotel piazza busy with her "tatting."
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She was exceedingly industrious, and managed to get through quite a lot of tatting during her captivity.
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The "tatting" craze was sweeping over the country then, everybody wore tatting and almost everybody made it.
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