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Preening

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    A grooming or posturing.

    "Katia Carranza, Jennifer Carlynn Kronenberg and Callie Manning are asked to do standard Hispanic preenings: hands on hips, placing weight on one leg while displaying the other thigh."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of preen form-of, gerund, participle, present

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