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mourning cloak
noun
- an anglewing butterfly, Nymphalis antiopa, widely distributed in Europe and North America, having velvety, dark-brown wings with purple spots and pale-yellow edges.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of mourning cloak1
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Example Sentences
George Prince was there, standing against the walls shrouded in his mourning cloak, watching the scene with alert, roving eyes.
In their habits they are quite similar to the caterpillars of the Mourning-cloak.
This was the mourning cloak, with me the first vernal butterfly.
I had made a mourning-cloak of the apron by tying it, hind part before, about my neck, whence it drooped to my heels.
The mourning cloak, the first butterfly to be seen in spring, has passed the winter in my "Slabsides."
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