Meaning of finger-nail | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [C1]

Examples

“Should a stranger suppose⟳ that they were white, he would soon be told that they were halfcaste. Should one doubt⟳ it, as passing strangers sometimes did, the children would be seized if unprotected and have⟳ the whites of their eyes and bases of their finger-nails searched for that bluishness which is supposed to be the evidence of black blood.”

“They overpowder and overperfume themselves, and color their finger-nails too harsh a color.”

“[…] turning listlessly about every now and then to look⟳ at the cigaretted women with their cool lip-sticked mouths, boredly listening to their boring male escorts, or boredly inhaling and boredly expelling, smoke⟳, I mean⟳, or jingling their gold bracelets with charms attached on their thin sun-tanned wrists, with elbows on table and cig-holders at eye-level – convenient, without moving, for taking the next drag⟳, and convenient, too, for eyeing the finger-nails – with eyes just open⟳ under lids draped long […]”

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