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butterfly-knotted

butterfly-knotted adjective: tied in a butterfly knot or knots.

Adjective

butterfly-knotted (not comparable)

  1. Tied in a butterfly knot or knots.
    • The charro wears the traditional big-winged sombrero tied under his chin; the butterfly-knotted tie adorning his breast; the leg-fitting trousers and leather leggings; the waist jacket with thin lapels held by one button over the breast.1970, J.P.S. Brown, Jim Kane, New York, N.Y.: The Dial Press, Inc., →LCCN, pages 161–162
    • Getting out of the car, I saw the white-kerchieved butterfly-knotted heads stretching all the way down, hundreds, solid, silent, no move.1970, Richard Llewellyn, White Horse to Banbury Cross, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, page 170

Examples of butterfly-knotted in a sentence

  • He rises to get a butterfly-knotted length of yarn from the yarn rack, then sits down and turns on the tape recorder for instructions.1980 August 10, Tropic (The Miami Herald, 70th year, number 254), page 11:
  • I was sick against a wall behind an office, on a pile of baby-blue, butterfly-knotted carrier bags which were spilling shredded paper on a pavement already stained dark.2004, Gwendoline Riley, Sick Notes, Vintage, published 2005, →ISBN, page 130:

Questions about butterfly-knotted

What does butterfly-knotted mean?
Butterfly-knotted means tied in a butterfly knot or knots.
How do you use butterfly-knotted in a sentence?
He rises to get a butterfly-knotted length of yarn from the yarn rack, then sits down and turns on the tape recorder for instructions.
What part of speech is butterfly-knotted?
Butterfly-knotted is an adjective.

Words near butterfly-knotted in the dictionary

  1. butterfly upon a wheel
  2. butterfly valve
  3. butterfly valves
  4. butterfly watching
  5. butterfly weed
  6. butterfly-knotted
  7. butterflybush
  8. butterflyer
  9. butterflyers
  10. butterflyfish
  11. butterflyfishes

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