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Swallow-tail. World English Historical Dictionary

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Swallow-tail. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Bibliographic Record Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022. Swallow-tail subs. phr. (old).—1.  See quot. 1544.

1   1544.  ASCHAM, Toxophilus [GILES, ii. 130]. Having two points or barbs, looking backward to the stele and the feathers, which surely we call in English a broad arrow head, or a SWALLOW-TAIL.

2   1828.  SCOTT, The Fair Maid of Perth, ii. 223. The English then strode forward,… and sent off their volleys of SWALLOW-TAILS before we could call on St. Andrew.

3   2.  (nautical).—The points of a burgee.

4   3.  (common).—A dress coat; a STEEL-PEN COAT (q.v.).

5   1886.  Referee, 29 Aug. He is stripped of his SWALLOW-TAIL and his pseudonym, and marched off to the guard-room again.

6   1888.  BESANT, Fifty Years Ago, 50. Here is one of the new police, with blue SWALLOW-TAIL COAT tightly buttoned, and white trousers.

7   1902.  LYNCH, Unseen Hand, i. He passed his hand caressingly over the lapel of an immaculate SWALLOW-TAIL.

8   4.  (? punning nonce word).—A tongue always wagging.

9   1690.  D’URFEY, Collin’s Walk through London and Westminster, i.        He’d tire your ears with pentagons … And all your out-works would assail, With his eternal SWALLOWS TAIL.

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