horse tail
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of horse tail
First recorded in 1870–75
Example Sentences
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In the time it had taken to make the tea he’d told us that the cabin was an L-4 built in 1932, described how the whole thing would have been carried up as a kit by pack horses and mules; explained that the circular apparatus in the middle of the room was an Osborne Fire Finder; that its crosshairs were horse tail – nothing else did the job so well.
From The Guardian
The man sporting a giant purple bottom adorned with a swinging horse tail is chanting to the beat of the drummers, his blue-painted face sweating copiously.
From The Guardian
That thing that looks like a horse tail hanging from a metal hook in the back kitchen?
From Los Angeles Times
“I. . . well, finally Chiron came out in his pajamas and his horse tail in curlers and—” “He wears curlers in his tail?”
From Literature
Firefall: This is a picture of the Horse tail waterfall in Yosemite.
From Time
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