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tailed /teɪld /adjective1 [in combination] Having a tail of a specified kind: a long-tailed lizard white-tailed eagles...- 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: a tailed jacket [in combination]: he always wore a long-tailed coat...- 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.
- A small figure in a long-tailed leather jacket came pelting down the steps.
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