Definition of beckoning
: attractive or inviting : appealing
… in the beckoning, golden distances of the great new westward continent …— Robert Penn Warren The most immediately beckoning aspect of Kobke's work is probably his portraiture.— Sanford Schwartz
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The first known use of beckoning was in 1786
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