horse-tail

I couldn't see Dolgo's legs, just his odd horse-tail/alice-band combo.

Australia v England - live! | Rob Smyth 2011

The Chinese also seem to have developed the first actual "brush," as writings from 1223 suggest that monks used a brush made of horse-tail hairs to clean their teeth.

Thomas P. Connelly, D.D.S.: The History of the Toothbrush: From 5000 BC to Present 2010

Ruby wore her sweater tied at her waist, and she had yoked her hair back at collar level with a band plaited of horse-tail strands.

Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

He wore yellow robes, had a silver helmet with a long horse-tail plume, and carried a drawn sword that he claimed to have taken in single combat from a British cavalry officer.

Sharpe's Fortress Cornwell, Bernard 1999

Ruby wore her sweater tied at her waist, and she had yoked her hair back at collar level with a band plaited of horse-tail strands.

Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997

He'd been trussed and gagged with the harness, knees strapped to either end of the saddle, and as a kind of cruel joke, the silvery-white horse-tail had been fastened onto his rump.

Magic's Price Lackey, Mercedes 1990

He'd been trussed and gagged with the harness, knees strapped to either end of the saddle, and as a kind of cruel joke, the silvery-white horse-tail had been fastened onto his rump.

Magic's Price Lackey, Mercedes 1990

He concludes by expressing his belief that the Hebrews did not sound their "lutes and guitars with the scratch of an horse-tail bow."

The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators George Hart

Carboniferous period, the plants, though still requiring a soaked and marshy soil, were aërial or atmospheric plants: they were covered with leaves; they breathed; their fructification was like that which now characterizes the ferns, the club-mosses, and the so-called "horse-tail plants," (_Equisetaceae, _) those grasses of low, damp grounds remarkable for the strongly marked articulations of the stem.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 Various

It is a spike of horse-tail; see how the stem is marked with lines, and how curiously jointed it is, and quite hollow except where the joints occur.

Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children W. Houghton