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Meaning of tortoise-shell | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C2

Examples

“The same nervous staccato laugh broke from her thin lips, and her fingers began to play with a long tortoise-shell paper-knife.”

CEFR level

C2

Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

See also

tortoiselike tortoiseshell Tortolan Tortolian tortulous tortuose