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Swallowtail   Listen
noun
Swallowtail  n.  
1.
(Carp.) A kind of tenon or tongue used in making joints. See Dovetail.
2.
(Bot.) A species of willow.
3.
(Fort.) An outwork with converging sides, its head or front forming a reentrant angle; so called from its form. Called also priestcap.
4.
A swallow-tailed coat. "This Stultz coat, a blue swallowtail, with yellow buttons."
5.
An arrow.
6.
(Zool.) Any one of numerous species of large and handsome butterflies, belonging to Papilio and allied genera, in which the posterior border of each hind wing is prolongated in the form of a long lobe. Note: The black swallowtail, or asterias (see Papilio), the blue swallowtail, or philenor, the tiger swallowtail, or turnus (see Turnus), and the zebra swallowtail, or ajax (see under Zebra) are common American species. See also Troilus.





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"Swallowtail" Quotes from Famous Books



... Lucy's reception, Susan surveyed the audience hopefully—handsome men in nankeen trousers, red waistcoats, white neckcloths, and gray swallowtail coats, sitting beside beautiful young women wearing gowns of bombazine and watered silk with wide hoop skirts and elaborately trimmed bonnets which set off their curls. To her delight, they also applauded Antoinette Brown Blackwell, the first woman minister they ...
— Susan B. Anthony - Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian • Alma Lutz
... height, and wore a conical pointed cap of nearly the same altitude, decorated with a black feather some three feet long. His doublet was prolonged behind into something resembling a violent exaggeration of what is now termed a "swallowtail," but was much obscured by the swelling folds of an enormous black, glossy-looking cloak, which must have been very much too long in calm weather, as the wind, whistling round the old house, carried it clear out from the wearer's shoulders to about ...
— Types of Children's Literature • Edited by Walter Barnes


Words linked to "Swallowtail" :   tails, swallow-tailed coat, dress suit, morning coat, white tie, tailcoat, white tie and tails, morning dress, tail coat, jacket, full dress


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