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
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
But in certain 388other tropical groups, and with some of our English butterflies, as the purple emperor, orange-tip, &c.
From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I by Darwin, Charles
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