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yellowing

The development of a yellow color or cast in white or clear coatings after aging.
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Beside the margin a derelict barrel would be turning over and over in the water; a switch of laburnum, with yellowing leaves, would go meandering through the reeds; and a belated gull would flutter up, dive again into the cold depths, rise once more, and disappear into the mist.
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Letterblair was a widower, and they dined alone, copiously and slowly, in a dark shabby room hung with yellowing prints of "The Death of Chatham" and "The Coronation of Napoleon.
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The hops were yellowing, and to him they had the beauty and the passion which poets in Sicily have found in the purple grape.
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