A man's full-dress jacket with two long tapering tails at the back

Usage examples of swallowtail.

The elder Germont has for two years appeared before the New York public as a well-to-do country gentleman of Provence might have appeared sixty years ago, but his son has thrown all sartorial scruples to the wind, and wears the white waistcoat and swallowtail of to-day.

Like most farmers, Harry knew that her best friends apart from the domesticated animals were owls, blacksnakes, bats, honeybees, praying mantises, most spiders, swallowtails, and purple martins.

The Frontier Bar was still closed: butterflies danced nervously in the air, zigzagging across the road, and on the other side of the dirt area some big yellow swallowtails were sucking nectar from flowering lilacs beside the Pilar Cafe.

Felsner removed his fingers from the cone of green light and only then showed his guests his swallowtails, tattered on the sides and in back.

Hardly a moment after Eddi Amsel had unwrapped him self from black cloth viscera, disclosing the easygoing and old-familiar Amsel in the flowing green light of the music room, he neatly folded his equipment, took the half-frightened, half-amused Jenny by her plump little hand, and, carrying away the Imbsian swallowtails, left the pianist and his goldfish.

There were a lot of species I wanted -- the Swallowtail for instance, the Black Hairstreak and the Large Blue, rare Fritil-laries like the Heath and the Glanville.

The only sign of life was a triangular rose bed and a black swallowtail butterfly floating over it.

The black swallowtail coat was long, and its lapels were turned in gray silk.

If he'd been larger than a Barbie doll he'd have been handsome, if your taste ran to the slender yellow-skinned variety, but I had to admit the yellow-and-black swallowtail wings were pretty.

To the left, the Kremlin was illuminated, bricks nearly white, with swallowtail battlements that were grace notes on a fortress that seemed to stretch as far as the Chinese Wall.

Her hair had been cut in a swallowtail bang, the two wings swept down over a pale ivory brow that would have graced the daughter of a T'ang, a clasp of imitation pearls holding the dark flow of her back hair in a tight, unbraided queue.

Then came Amsel's swallowtail divertimenti: the unleashed grandmother.

Tiger swallowtail, spicebush swallowtail, greater frittilary, giant sulphur, black swallowtail, red-spotted purple, and painted lady.

A tiger swallowtail butterfly flapped up and landed square on Raimo's nose.

A swallowtail butterfly flew close and sucked at the sprinkled drops on the limestone rim of the fountain.