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butterfly-knotted en · ADJ

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  1. (not-comparable) Tied in a butterfly knot or knots.
    • Getting out of the car, I saw the white-kerchieved butterfly-knotted heads stretching all the way down, hundreds, solid, silent, no move. 1970, Richard Llewellyn, White Horse to Banbury Cross, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, page 170:
    • In the shadows, hanging on the walls or merely leaning against them, were dozens of paintings, drawings, landscapes, and portraits, a prominent spot reserved for the one of Jean dressed as a hunter, wearing a cap and a butterfly-knotted ascot, his left hand on his hip, his right holding the barrel of a gun with the butt resting on the ground and a dog at his feet. 2016, Pascal Mérigeau, translated by Bruce Benderson, Jean Renoir: A Biography, RatPac Press, →ISBN:
    • I was sick against a wall behind an office, on a pile of baby-blue, butterfly-knotted carrier bags which were spilling shredded paper on a pavement already stained dark. 2004, Gwendoline Riley, Sick Notes, Vintage, published 2005, →ISBN, page 130:
    • He rises to get a butterfly-knotted length of yarn from the yarn rack, then sits down and turns on the tape recorder for instructions. 1980 August 10, Tropic (The Miami Herald, 70th year, number 254), page 11:
    • The charro wears the traditional big-winged sombrero tied under his chin; the butterfly-knotted tie adorning his breast; the leg-fitting trousers and leather leggings; the waist jacket with thin lapels held by one button over the breast. 1970, J.P.S. Brown, Jim Kane, New York, N.Y.: The Dial Press, Inc., →LCCN, pages 161–162: