What is "slashings"

Usage examples of "slashings".

As was proper in a married woman, the undergown, of the finest linen, covered most of her exposed chest, right up to the collarbone, and it was pulled through the myriad small slashings in the sleeves, which were faced with scarlet silk.

The circumstances surrounding the slashings - especially the Chancellor murder - have made me wonder about the influence of early memories upon adult behaviour.

The slashings took place on Thursday because Chancellor had to be murdered on Thursday - the night his bodyguard was off.

They had been tagged the Full Moon Slashings by the NewsNet pundits, and the fact that I couldn't remember where I'd been during the killings had preyed on me.

Kid Stealth hadn't been around during the Full Moon Slashings so he didn't know what Raven and I had run into back then.

The slashings had run up to the top of a ridge and over and then the forest began.

This was reached by a trail which ran from the cottage through the woods to the farm and then by a road which wound through the slashings to the camp.

His coat was of bright crimson cloth, with cuts and slashings in it, through which bunches of bright blue paper were made to protrude, in imitation of the costume of mediaeval times.

The flour all came off the Pierrots' faces, the blue paper slashings of the drummer-in-chief hung in pulpy lumps against his gorgeous scarlet cloak.

Congden again, knowing in his heart that these punks were never going to be caught or punished, feeling that the mystery of the blood in the chicken coop had been solved in the all-too-mundane fact of the tire slashings, tired of this hacker bullshit, Dale pushed the OFF button and watched the computer screen wink to a point of light and then die to black.