wrinkling

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of wrinkle

noun

1. A pattern of wrinkles.

   “The character of these wrinklings, when seen on the flat of the beds, forbids the idea that they are due to end on compression[…]”

2. The act of wrinkling.

   “Would she be able to appreciate the subtlety of their advances, if they made any; those little twitches and twists of the lips, those narrowings and rollings of the eye, those wrinklings of the speculative temple, that shrugging of an eyebrow at play?”