hanging

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decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window

"the cold castle walls were covered with hangings"

hanging, wall hanging

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a form of capital punishment; victim is suspended by the neck from a gallows or gibbet until dead

"in those days the hanging of criminals was a public entertainment"

hanging

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is a type of (narrower)

putting a condemned person to death

the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely)

"there was a small ceremony for the hanging of the portrait"

dangling, hanging, suspension

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