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Swallow-tailed   /swˈɑloʊ-teɪld/   Listen
Swallow-tailed

adjective
1.
(especially of butterflies and birds) having a forked tail like that of a swallow.



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... characterise some great historical personage whose name you have held in profound veneration all your life long? Now, in the wayward drift of your imagination among the freaks of modern fashion, did it ever dare to present before your eyes St. Paul in strapped pantaloons, figured velvet vest, swallow-tailed coat, stove-pipe hat, and a cockney glass at his eye? Did your fancy, in its wildest fictions, ever pass such an image across the ...
— A Walk from London to John O'Groat's • Elihu Burritt


Words linked to "Swallow-tailed" :   caudate, swallow-tailed coat, swallow-tailed hawk, caudated


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