Crossword clues for swallowtail
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Priestcap \Priest"cap`\, n. (Fort.) A form of redan, so named from its shape; -- called also swallowtail.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 The forked tail of a swallow. 2 Anything, such as a burgee, of a similar forked shape. 3 A type of tailcoat with two long tapering tails.(w Tailcoat#Dress coat Wp) 4 Any of various butterflies of the family Papilionidae, having a forked extension to the hind wing.
WordNet
n. a man's full-dress jacket with two long tapering tails at the back [syn: swallow-tailed coat, morning coat]
Wikipedia
Swallowtail may refer to:
- Swallowtail catastrophe or swallowtail surface, a singularity occurring in the part of mathematics called catastrophe theory
- Swallow-tail coat, a formal tailcoat worn traditionally as part of the white tie dress code
- Swallowtail butterfly, large colorful butterflies from the family Papilionidae
- Swallowtail (film), 1996 film directed by Shunji Iwai
- Swallowtail (flag), a term in vexillology
- The Swallow's Tail, a painting by Salvador Dalí, inspired by the swallowtail catastrophe
Swallowtail, also known as Swallowtail Butterfly (スワロウテイル Suwarōteiru), is a 1996 Japanese crime film directed by Shunji Iwai, starring Hiroshi Mikami, pop-singer Chara, and Ayumi Ito.
The film was shot on hand-held cameras using jump cuts and other visual techniques. It covers a wide array of themes and genres, from social realism to coming-of-age to crime.
A theme song for the film under Yen Town Band " Swallowtail Butterfly (Ai no Uta)" gained No. 1 on the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart.
In flag terminology, a swallowtail is either
- a V-shaped cut in a flag that causes the flag to end in two points at the fly; or
- any flag which has this V-shaped cut.
The name comes from the forked tail that is a common feature of the swallow species of birds.
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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.