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

Johns later said that his paintings of American flags and targets, which he started making in 1954, represented “things the mind already knows,” which Dienes’s rubbings did as well, and maybe first.

From New York Times • May 7, 2021

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

From Washington Post • Jan. 22, 2020

“Didn’t mean to hurt your feelings. Was it something I said? The rubbings, they’re for a local history project, it’s not as if I’m, you know, digging up bones or anything.”

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman