tortoise-shell , the free dictionary
See also: tortoiseshell and tortoise shell
English[edit]
Noun[edit]
tortoise-shell (usually uncountable, plural tortoise-shells)
- Alternative form of tortoiseshell
Adjective[edit]
tortoise-shell (not comparable)
- Alternative form of tortoiseshell
- 1891, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray:
- The same nervous staccato laugh broke from her thin lips, and her fingers began to play with a long tortoise-shell paper-knife.