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  • noun Plural form of rattail.

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Examples

  • When I told him I was thinking about buying a winter scarf, he suggested that rattails might go with the jacket nicely.

    The New Yorker Stories Ann Beattie 2010

  • Tamara Kuznetsova, a heavy girl with hair braided in two rattails down her back, lumbers to the microphone with a stack of notes in her hands.

    A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010

  • Tamara Kuznetsova, a heavy girl with hair braided in two rattails down her back, lumbers to the microphone with a stack of notes in her hands.

    A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010

  • Garriott wears two rattails, which he's been cultivating for more than 20 years.

    Going to Space? First Stop: Eight Months of Grueling Training in Russia's Star City By David Kushner 2008

  • Nobody seemed to have recognized her, not with rattails of hair wriggling down her normally immaculate face.

    The Edge of Madness Michael Dobbs 2008

  • David pointed across the street, and she looked and saw the Canman, unmistakable, the billow of dirty-tanish rattails, the pale blob of the face against the black plastic bag he carried on one shoulder, the long army overcoat, the loping stride.

    Enemy Within Robert K. Tanenbaum 2002

  • David pointed across the street, and she looked and saw the Canman, unmistakable, the billow of dirty-tanish rattails, the pale blob of the face against the black plastic bag he carried on one shoulder, the long army overcoat, the loping stride.

    Enemy Within Robert K. Tanenbaum 2002

  • David pointed across the street, and she looked and saw the Canman, unmistakable, the billow of dirty-tanish rattails, the pale blob of the face against the black plastic bag he carried on one shoulder, the long army overcoat, the loping stride.

    Enemy Within Robert K. Tanenbaum 2002

  • Screams of feminine horror as a few other guys follow him, then the shower room is filled with the sound of snapping rattails.

    A King of Infinite Space Steele, Allen 1997

  • I felt like I was in the presence of Steven Seagal, with less rattails.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Angora Holly Polo 2011

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