swallowtail

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The forked tail of a swallow.
2. isim Anything, such as a burgee, of a similar forked shape.
3. isim 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, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.”

4. isim 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.”