[f. BLOW v.2 + -ING1.] The action of blossoming or blooming. † b. A bloom or blossom: also fig. (obs.).

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c. 1380.  Wyclif, Serm., Sel. Wks. I. 220. Þe blowinge of þes fruitys must faile.

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1578.  Lyte, Dodoens, 692. Clustering togither lyke the cattes tayles or blowinges of the Nut tree.

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1609.  C. Butler, Fem. Mon. (1634), 58. At the blewing of Palm … they [wasps] fly abroad for food.

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1660.  E. Waterhouse, Arms & Arm., 184. These budds and blowings of Nobility and Gentry.

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1797.  Holcroft, Stolberg’s Trav. (ed. 2), III. lxix. 58. Flowers … whose periodical blowing is advertised in our newspapers.

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