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Giving a grainy surface
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pebbling
Word definitions for pebbling in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The placing of pebbles in any of several board games vb. (present participle of pebble English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pebble \Peb"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pebbled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Pebbling .] To grain (leather) so as to produce a surface covered with small rounded prominences.
Usage examples of pebbling.
It was the most restrained, sensuous touch she had ever experienced, and her entire body reacted, nipples pebbling, stomach tightening.
He sighed as his fingers gently kneaded her breast, savoring the silkiness of her skin, the pebbling of her nipple.
Gooseflesh pebbling his skin, nausea, an eddying sensation behind his forehead as if his thoughts were spinning out of control.
He sat atop a footstool, engaged in double-lacing his shoes, taking time between knots to watch her dress, an operation that seemed to portray the correspondence between position and time, one action generating the next, step-in, shake-into, hoist-on, her limbs and torso covered now, fluidly moving woman, her eyes appearing to follow the delicate pebbling sound of Softly's voice.
The other maidens and the younger priestesses were doing the same, and I felt a moment's satisfaction to see that I was not the only one whose skin was pebbling in bumps like a plucked fowl.