decking

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As a result, homes continue to be built featuring classic wood shingle roofs and deckings that allow burning embers to leap from building to building.

From The Guardian • Sep. 19, 2020

What doest thou now That thou deck'st thee in deckings of gold And clothest in scarlet,61 And with stibium widenest thine eyes?

From Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 by Smith, George Adam, Sir

Parminter, a tailor, is as obsolete as its Old French original parmentier, a maker of parements, deckings, from parer, Lat. parare, to prepare.

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest

That thou dressest in scarlet, And deck'st thee in deckings of gold, With stibium widenest thine eyes.

From Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 by Smith, George Adam, Sir

They came in their strange deckings of glaring colors, and many and varied were the types which soon filled the room.

From The Story of the Foss River Ranch A Tale of the Northwest by Cullum, Ridgwell