tortoise-shell

See also: tortoiseshell and tortoise shell

English

Noun

tortoise-shell (usually uncountable, plural tortoise-shells)

1. Alternative form of tortoiseshell

Adjective

tortoise-shell (not comparable)

1. 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.