fantail
noun
a tail, end, or part shaped like a fan.
fan-tailed
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a word derived from
fantail.
Example Sentences
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Small wooden dance ornament, shaped like the tail of a fan-tailed pigeon; the body green; the radiating sticks red.
In fine, though the parson's and the quaker's hat has each its several merits, commend me to the fan-tailed shallow.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827 by Various
The wood abounds with several species of birds, among which a green Bulbul is the most common, then the fan-tailed Parus, with its coquettish airs; judging from the voice there is a species of Bucco.
From Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries by William Griffith
My waif was curled up in my kimono, feeding my fan-tailed goldfish.
From Jane Journeys On by Ruth Comfort Mitchell
Of the genera peculiar to North America,—but which are unknown in the South,—found in Mexico, are the fan-tailed wagtails, titmice, and worm-eating warblers—blue robins, ground-finch and sand-finch, crescent-starlings and ground-woodpecker.
From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by William Henry Giles Kingston
