swan neck

noun

1. a tube, rail, etc, curved like a swan's neck

Example Sentences

She had legs, she had arms, she had a swan neck dangling uselessly behind her.

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This checkered past, combined with its bizarre characteristics — duckbill, swan neck as long as its body, sickle-shaped toe claw — left some paleontologists dubious about its authenticity.

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Mrs. Shafiroff angled her swan neck and smiled.

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“That’s how they made them years ago, before metal strings, before they knew how to brace a long neck. It’s incredible. There’s more careful engineering in that swan neck than in any three cathedrals.”

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Related: The Danish Girl review - Eddie Redmayne's swan neck is best thing in pain-free transgender melodrama Trans experiences continue to make headlines, and the timing is fortuitous for Tom Hooper’s tale of the first recipient of male-to-female gender reassignment.

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