orange-tip
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Some manufacturers fought the orange-tip requirement, designed as a signal to police that a gun is just a toy, “because it delegitimized the appeal of their product,” he says.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2014
Some manufacturers fought the orange-tip requirement, designed as a signal to police that a gun is just a toy, "because it delegitimized the appeal of their product," he says.
From Chicago Tribune ● Dec. 22, 2014
Colour and sound, love and war, it was spring indeed. it was the orange-tip.
From "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character by English, Douglas
Their white sails bear fabulous devices in golden colour of moons and crescents and dolphins; some are marked like the "orange-tip" butterfly.
From Old Calabria by Douglas, Norman
But in certain other tropical groups, and in some of our English butterflies, as the purple emperor, orange-tip, etc.
From The Descent of Man by Darwin, Charles
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