Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Any piece of armor made à queue d'écrevisse. See crevisse.

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Examples

  • Though she sees her dad almost every day, Ms. Rankin says she still spends Father's Day with her pop and the rest of her family, and this year they'll celebrate the holiday with a lobster-tail dinner.

    Where Every Day Is Father's Day Sarah E. Needleman 2011

  • Though she sees her dad almost every day, Ms. Rankin says she still spends Father's Day with her pop and the rest of her family, and this year they'll celebrate the holiday with a lobster-tail dinner.

    Where Every Day Is Father's Day Sarah E. Needleman 2011

  • In the end, a fragrant, golden lobster-tail of a loaf came piping hot from the oven, and though it wasn't as large and didn't rise as much as I expected my mom assured me it would be fine - her Challah recipe has twice the amount of ingredients as this one (a fact I didn't know) so it's to be assumed that mine would be smaller.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Sarah 2008

  • Not far in front artillery was thundering away, with smoke wreathing up in the still air, and bodies of cavalry, pandy and irregular, were waiting - I remember a squadron of lancers, in green coats, with lobster-tail helmets and long ribbons trailing from their lance-heads, and a band - native musicians, squealing and droning fit to drown gunfire.

    Fiancée 2010

  • Not far in front artillery was thundering away, with smoke wreathing up in the still air, and bodies of cavalry, pandy and irregular, were waiting — I remember a squadron of lancers, in green coats, with lobster-tail helmets and long ribbons trailing from their lance-heads, and a band — native musicians, squealing and droning fit to drown gunfire.

    Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

  • Not far in front artillery was thundering away, with smoke wreathing up in the still air, and bodies of cavalry, pandy and irregular, were waiting - I remember a squadron of lancers, in green coats, with lobster-tail helmets and long ribbons trailing from their lance-heads, and a band native musicians, squealing and droning fit to drown gunfire.

    Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

  • I had also advocated a removable insert of sheet steel in a pocket on the breast of the tunic, this plate to be kept in the trenches and inserted on advancing; and a lobster-tail steel knee-piece in the knickers.

    A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell Wilfred Thomason Grenfell 1902

  • "nobody likes a thick-shelled, puny, lobster-tail at the dinner table."

    Knight Science Journalism Tracker 2009

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