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Having a square tail.

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Usage examples (15)
  • He wears drab breeches and gaiters, and a respectable square-tailed ancient black coat.
  • Valour in square-tailed coat eyes Beauty in Greek sandals, and kindles by her glances: Down with Jacobinism!
  • At another time the creatures may be of a large cockshafer sort, or a dreadful square-tailed thing that is especially ominous.
  • My surfcraft that day was an alaia (pronounced ah-LIE-ah), a replica of the thin, round-nosed, square-tailed boards ridden in pre-20th-century Hawaii.
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