winglike

Historical Examples of winglike

• Could that winglike envelopment be her gray woollen shawl, tossed by the wind?

  A Noble Woman

  Ann S. Stephens

• The gates are ornamented with the heads of monsters, especially lions with large ears and winglike expansions at the side.

  Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 (of 3)

  Charles Eliot

• The hair is stretched over a broad, winglike frame and three hours are required for its arrangement.

  The Old World and Its Ways

  William Jennings Bryan

• The waist, called camisa, is made with winglike sleeves and a stiff kerchief-like collar, named panuela.

  The Spell of the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines

  Isabel Anderson

• There is a winglike process on one side and a spine, which projects lateroventrally, on the other side of the tip.

  Genera and Subgenera of Chipmunks

  John A. White