rubbings

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Similarly, a study published in May in the journal Communications Biology found that elephants form complex "sentences" through their various rumbles, ear flags, trunk rubbings and other actions.

From Salon • Jul. 31, 2024

In 2016 graphic designer Marina Willer created a booklet of neon rubbings; manhole colouring books are available for people seeking mindfulness; and a Shoreditch company offers framed prints of rubbings for £80.

From BBC • May 14, 2021

It’s a sentiment Judy summed up in a poem she wrote to accompany her “Group” rubbings:

From Washington Post • Jan. 22, 2020

Here they’re tearing up the Interstate in a 1969 Plymouth Satellite, coming from the Keys, where they spent a few productive days touring the local cemetery pursuing Serge’s latest hobby, making tombstone rubbings.

From New York Times • Jan. 3, 2020

She pulled out a brood frame, a canvas of whirling blacks and grays, with rubbings of silver.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd