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n. (tortoise shell English)
Usage examples of "tortoise shells".
But it was actually circular and flat, kind of like two tortoise shells put together like this.
The fountains were shaped into tortoise shells or abstract suns, and most had two or three tiers, showing they were more for looking at than for drinking or washing, but the Academia got its water money straight from the Elector’.
On it were containers made of tortoise shells, filled with a thick liquid of some kind and small round objects, balls of some sort.
She was a handsome middle-aged woman dressed in a long pleated dress with a sort of wraparound apron over it, held up at the shoulders by brooches shaped like tortoise shells.
She and Gai bring warthog and kudu hides, porcupine quills, tortoise shells, ostrich eggs, a sharpening stone, an awl, two assagai blades, pots of Bantu clay.