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tortoise-shell en · ADJ
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(alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative form of tortoiseshell.
The same nervous staccato laugh broke from her thin lips, and her fingers began to play with a long tortoise-shell paper-knife.
1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter IV, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 67:
tortoise-shell en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative, uncountable, usually) Alternative form of tortoiseshell.
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