Crossword-Solution: TORTOISESHELL
We have 19 clues for the answer “TORTOISESHELL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Fate for a wicked Galapagos animal? | 1 answer |
| Kind of cat or butterfly | 1 answer |
| Butterfly or cat | 1 answer |
| Cat – butterfly | 1 answer |
| the mottled horny substance of the shell of some turtles | 1 answer |
| SEMITRANSPARENT shell | 1 answer |
| Mottled plated ornamental substance | 1 answer |
| Mottled material | 1 answer |
| Mottled inlay material | 1 answer |
| Having to watch the hare win over and over, perhaps | 1 answer |
| Eyeglass-frame material | 1 answer |
| BROWN and transparent yellow patchy material used for combs | 1 answer |
| TATTING-shuttle-making substance | 3 answers |
| MARQUETRY, material used for | 7 answers |
| ART OF WOOD INLAY | 10 answers |
| A CAT HAVING BLACK AND CREAM-COLORED AND YELLOWISH MARKINGS | 11 answers |
| Cat breed | 33 answers |
| variegation | 36 answers |
| BUTTERFLY, type of | 41 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EACZME
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with TORTOISESHELL (5)
Her brown hair was waved in front and done up behind in a great twist, held by a tortoiseshell comb with gold filigree.
Franklin,” said the old man, taking off his heavy tortoiseshell spectacles, and pushing Rosanna Spearman’s confession a little away from him.
Before long they come, gliding, graceful shadows, approaching circuitously, and halting occasionally to reconnoitre--tortoiseshell, tabby, and black, all domestic cats, but all transformed for the nonce into their natural state.
Not one of your little consumptive patients with their tortoiseshell eyeglasses would hide himself in a closet for six weeks, like Lauzun, to keep up his mistress’s courage while she was lying in of her child.
That jewelled ornament, which I remember often telling Rita was of a very Philistinish conception (it was in some way connected with a tortoiseshell comb) occupied an undue place in my memory, tried to come into some sort of significance even in my sleep.
Quotes with TORTOISESHELL (3)
I cleaned the shit off my pink high-tops and drove home, stopping for an espresso at the coffeehouse across from the college. Men and women were hunched over copies of Jean Paul Sartre and writing in their journals. Most wore the thin-rimmed tortoiseshell glasses favored by intellectuals. Their clothes were faded to a precisely fashionable degree; you can buy them that way from catalogs now, new clothes processed to look old. The intellectuals looked at me in my overalls the …
In fact," Eric said, as he went to the front door, "I'd throw it away entirely. Maybe burn it." He left, closing the door behind him very quietly. I knew, as sure as I knew my name, that tomorrow he would send me another coat, in a big fancy box, with a big bow on it. It would be the right size, it would be a top brand, and it would be warm. It was cranberry red, with a removable liner, a detachable hood and tortoiseshell buttons.
For the hair, a few French hairpins and a tortoiseshell clip will dress up any bun!
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, Universal.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1998–2024).