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present participle and gerund of look examples
as the last part of compound adjectives: relating to or having the appearance of. quotations examples
By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.
1935, George Goodchild, chapter 5, in Death on the Centre Court
Good-Looking, Funny Guy — (Not funny-looking, good guy), 36, Jewish, athletic.
1988 September 12, New York Magazine, page 226
plural lookings
The act of one who looks; a glance. quotations examples
A complicated interplay of lookings and viewings is in play. The staging and performance of the photograph, then, is as much the subject of the photograph as the ostensible subjects […]
2005, Felix Driver, Luciana Martins, Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire, page 162