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  • noun Plural form of fantail.

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Examples

  • Even with a touch of dew still on the ground, little fantails of dust trailed his steps all the way up to the porch.

    Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010

  • Even with a touch of dew still on the ground, little fantails of dust trailed his steps all the way up to the porch.

    Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010

  • Even with a touch of dew still on the ground, little fantails of dust trailed his steps all the way up to the porch.

    Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010

  • I found these buttermilk fantails, which both sounded delicious and took care of the leftover buttermilk in my fridge!

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • The spear shaped one-ton shovel head on the end of it lashed the dirt, sending fantails of soil up against the safety screens of the front row to their delight.

    365 tomorrows » 2006 » October : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2006

  • The wheeling and circling flights of runts, fantails, tumblers, and pouters, were perhaps not quite consistent with the grave and sober character of the building, but the monotonous cooing, which never ceased to be raised by some among them all day long, suited it exactly, and seemed to lull it to rest.

    Barnaby Rudge 2007

  • The sun shone in upon her, the air was mild and alive with sounds surprised into life, the twittering once more of birds, the lowing of a cow, the occasional caw of a rook, the continual cooing of the fantails.

    Over the River 2004

  • She emerged from the trees at the top, and stood looking down at the house, long and stone-coloured, broken by magnolias and the trees on the lawn; smoke was rising from two chimneys, and the fantails speckled with white one gable.

    Maid in Waiting 2004

  • At first he thought it was a sunlight reflecting off the silver-gray dust that marred his visor, but as he watched it became a white object, kicking up fantails of regolith as it skirted boulders and small impact craters.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • At its dormer window she stood listening to the coorooing of the fantails and the sudden flutter and flip-flap of their wings climbing the air from the yew-hedged garden.

    Over the River 2004

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