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

Visitors are invited to make rubbings, with paper, on their surfaces.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2022

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

This week, participants will learn about Sari Dienes, who frequently used ink and webril, a cotton-based material used in the medical industry, to make rubbings of Manhattan’s subway grates, pavement cracks and maintenance hole covers.

From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2021

Even when I got used to that gray, I would only see peaks as if shaded in pencil, rocks like charcoal rubbings, everything so murky.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston