orange-tip

British  

noun

1. a European butterfly, Anthocharis cardamines, having whitish wings with orange-tipped forewings: family Pieridae

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orange-tip

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

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 Norman Douglas

It was the orange-tip, and the dormouse rejoiced, for the orange-tip meant spring.

From "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character by Douglas English

Phyllis the ringlet with the blue lining, Mysie, the blue one, little Lady Alberta, the orange-tip, and the other child the burnet moth.'

From The Two Sides of the Shield by Charlotte Mary Yonge

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