Sentence examples for swallowtail coat from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, Michael, too, crosses the state line, with Laurie, who has persuaded him to don a swallowtail coat for an "antebellum fashion festival" on a sugarcane plantation.

Put him in a starched collar, high-button shoes, and a swallowtail coat and stick a pair of muttonchops on the sides of his bald head, and he would look just like one of the nineteenthcentury legends of Newspaper Row — Horace Greeley, say, or (with the addition of a long white beard) Charles A. Dana himself, the editor of the previous Sun during its Gilded Age heyday.

The bulky tweeds, flashy socks, wool and leather camp moccasins and swallowtail coats tended to obscure a more appealing selection of fitted suits that reprised an earlier Milan show of Mr. Lauren's, at which he anticipated by a year the tailoring trend.

At home in his brownstone on Lexington Avenue (it's still there), the new collector and his wife entertained even more grandly than before: "French servants wearing black swallowtail coats and pants, with immaculate white vests, cravats, and gloves were 'as active as a set of monkeys' in fetching food and drink".

He also studied how swallowtails adapt their coat patterns as camouflage to gain an evolutionary advantage over predators.

At first, Spencer showed up at dinners in a frock coat, only reluctantly making the transition to a swallowtail, but, as an amanuensis recorded, "he always refused to wear a white necktie": "Those who had invited him, he said, must take him as he chose to come".

Here were stiff, oversize coats lightly spotted with what appeared to be bleach, and a swallowtail jacket over baggy trousers made of washed dove-gray linen.

"A parabola with a swallowtail.

Did you see a swallowtail?

Swallowtail butterfly, sure, been to the Broads, seen that; but swallowtail moth?

When they grow up, they will be black swallowtail butterflies.