fish-tail
Example Sentences
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The corkscrews Amber placed in her hair shrivel down into a thick fish-tail braid dangling below her waist.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
The blue fish-tail with its letter "M" had revealed the yacht's identity to searching glasses.
From Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 by Day, Holman
She was pacing up and down the little reception room, and rubbing her hands together, while the twisting of the fish-tail of her hydrangea-colored robe, like an eel in agony, emphasized her agitation.
From The Dust Flower by Kline, Hibberd V. B. (Hibberd Van Buren)
Once he bought her a white evening dress, low neck, fish-tail train, pearls all over the front—cost him one whole week's salary, eighty-five dollars!
From Working With the Working Woman by Parker, Cornelia Stratton
What, that big beast that looks as if it was made of india-rubber, with long whiskers and a sort of fish-tail?
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, May 13, 1893 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir
