tortoiseshell
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- noun
- /ˈtɔːrtəˌʃɛl/
- The artist loved incorporating tortoiseshell patterns into his designs, as they added a warm and natural feel.
- tortoiseshell glasses
- tortoiseshell eyeglasses
- tortoiseshell sunglasses
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Watch on YouTubeDenim shorts, these jeans easily, especially with the white top because the buttons are like kind of like tortoiseshell colours that would really nicely match.
- Denim shorts, these jeans easily, especially with the white top because the buttons are like kind of like tortoiseshell colours that would really nicely match.
- And I think I could wear it either with like this boot and do a brown bag with it and like some tortoiseshell sunnies, even the ones I had on earlier.
Examples
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She picked up a pair of old tortoiseshell reading glasses that Jack had run over with the Caravan.
Fiction book (1998) -
The next day, Valerie, who had reinforced her preferred mode of impenetrability by shielding her eyes with her wide-rimmed, lightly tinted tortoiseshell glasses, sauntered around the site of the future Madison Avenue Settlement show house.
Fiction book (1990) -
"Hope appeared next to him, looking wise in new tortoiseshell glasses.
Fiction book (2000) -
Dr. Bob had short, spiky brown hair and tortoiseshell glasses hanging by a silver chain around her neck.
Fiction book (2001) -
And somehow her tortoiseshell eyeglasses are sexy.
Fiction book (1999) -
Joel did not look away as she peered at him through a pair of round tortoiseshell frames.
Fiction book (1992) -
Flint put on a pair of tortoiseshell half-glasses.
Fiction book (2000) -
Erica was in her late twenties with curly hair and big eyes magnified by round tortoiseshell glasses.
Fiction book (1995) -
Banion looked owlishly into the lens through his collegiate tortoiseshell eyeglasses.
Fiction book (2000) -
A mestizo with dark Indian skin and liquid black eyes, which he hid behind round tortoiseshell glasses, Father Jorge still bore a slight trace of a Castilian accent, which somehow added to his charm without making him appear at all pretentious.
Fiction book (2000)
Compounds
A small bright butterfly with orange and black wings that often visits flowers
A tropical sea turtle with a hooked beak and a beautiful patterned shell valued for decoration and food
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Etymology
Tortoiseshell is also used for a mixed brown, yellow, and orange 'pattern' that looks like a turtle's shell, for example on glasses or accessories. So calling something tortoiseshell means it has that shell-like pattern.