tortoise-shell

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., Melbourne, Vic.: 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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