What is "smatterings"

Usage examples of "smatterings".

In over two thousand closely printed pages, it managed to include all the festal days, the Hours of the monastic Office, the complex and elaborate rites once performed between Holy Thursday and Easter Sunday, the psalms and their intonations, a wealth of antiphons, Glorias, Credos, Introits, Graduals, smatterings of Ambrosian and even Gallican chant, and much more.

There was no need of an interpreter with him, for he was capable of conversing in a number of languagesGaelic, English, German, French, Latin, Italian, and smatterings of Spanish, Catalonian, Moorish, and Portuguese.

Keff was looking forward to airing his sign language and the smatterings he'd already picked up of cheeps and twitters.

I heard smatterings of laughter, an occasional light conversational swell, but it sounded like most of the guests had departed.

There was no need of an interpreter with him, for he was capable of conversing in a number of languages—Gaelic, English, German, French, Latin, Italian, and smatterings of Spanish, Catalonian, Moorish, and Portuguese.

Faint smatterings of light reflected out toward the Lizzars who could be seen moving toward the town.

She had gotten herself tangled with a fear-straddled girl whose smatterings of knowledge and animal instincts battled constantly within herself, and the addition of another enemy—within her own body—was too much to bear.

She had gotten herself tangled with a fear-straddled girl whose smatterings of knowledge and animal instincts battled constantly within herself, and the addition of another enemywithin her own bodywas too much to bear.

Already some of the pirouettes had touched off smatterings of applause.