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Definition of tailed in English: tailedadjective teɪldteɪld 1in combination Having a tail of a specified kind. Example sentencesExamples - The red-tailed hawks circle and plummet into the valley between our hill and the next.
- The Short-tailed Albatross is an extremely rare bird.
- He's devoting his professional life to studying the brush-tailed rock wallaby.
- In the backyard, four bushy-tailed squirrels scamper up to the screen door, chattering loudly.
- Today, black-tailed prairie dogs are limited to less than 1 percent of their historic range.
- 1.1 (of a garment) having a lower or hanging part, especially at the back of a coat.
in combination he always wore a long-tailed coat Example sentencesExamples - He kept his hair very short, and indoors he wore an old-fashioned swallow-tailed coat, refusing to adopt the formal fashion of his day.
- She wore a perfectly cut full-tailed tuxedo jacket.
- Use traditional motifs if you want to re-create a particular period flavour, with windows dressed with lace panels, over simple Holland blinds and under richly sagged-and-tailed drapes for example.
- The constable's uniform consisted of a top hat representing authority and a tailed jacket for servitude, because although the police were considered public servants they were also the public's masters.
- A small figure in a long-tailed leather jacket came pelting down the steps.
Definition of tailed in US English: tailedadjectiveteɪldtāld 1in combination Having a tail of a specified kind. Example sentencesExamples - In the backyard, four bushy-tailed squirrels scamper up to the screen door, chattering loudly.
- The red-tailed hawks circle and plummet into the valley between our hill and the next.
- Today, black-tailed prairie dogs are limited to less than 1 percent of their historic range.
- The Short-tailed Albatross is an extremely rare bird.
- He's devoting his professional life to studying the brush-tailed rock wallaby.
- 1.1 (of a garment) having a lower or hanging part, especially at the back of a coat.
in combination he always wore a long-tailed coat Example sentencesExamples - The constable's uniform consisted of a top hat representing authority and a tailed jacket for servitude, because although the police were considered public servants they were also the public's masters.
- A small figure in a long-tailed leather jacket came pelting down the steps.
- She wore a perfectly cut full-tailed tuxedo jacket.
- Use traditional motifs if you want to re-create a particular period flavour, with windows dressed with lace panels, over simple Holland blinds and under richly sagged-and-tailed drapes for example.
- He kept his hair very short, and indoors he wore an old-fashioned swallow-tailed coat, refusing to adopt the formal fashion of his day.
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