Swallow-tail(s) 16


1.

a dress coat. After the fancied resemblance to the tail of a swallow (a type of bird).

 
  1. ZACCHAEUS.THE.BUSINESSMAN_ TUCSON.AZ MONDAY_ 63-0121 E-19
   

And He looked to be about eighty-five years old, and he had on one of those old long, what we used to call down in the south, preacher coats (you know, the kind of swallow-tail, you know, the strips up and down it), a little rim of white hair around his head, and he had to lead the old fellow out, he was so old.

 

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