OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 23834

swallowtail

/ˈswɒl.əʊˌteɪl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cola de golondrina
The forked tail of a swallow.
frac
A type of tailcoat with two long tapering tails.
It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, wit…
macaón
Any of various butterflies of the family Papilionidae, many of which have a long extension to each hindwing.
Claudette visit me […] and the biggest, most beautiful black-and-yellow Jamaican swallowtail butterfly follow behind she, like it give us it little blessing.
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