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tortoise-shell
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See also: tortoiseshell and tortoise shell
English
Noun
tortoise-shell (usually uncountable, plural tortoise-shells)
- Alternative form of tortoiseshell.
Adjective
tortoise-shell (not comparable)
- Alternative form of tortoiseshell.
- 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter IV, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 67:
- The same nervous staccato laugh broke from her thin lips, and her fingers began to play with a long tortoise-shell paper-knife.
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