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"tortoiseshell" Definitions
  1. [uncountable] the hard shell of a turtle, especially the type with orange and brown marks, used for making combs, jewellery, etc.
  2. (North American English also calico cat) [countable] a cat with black, brown, orange and white fur
  3. [countable] a butterfly with orange and brown marks on its wings

123 Sentences With "tortoiseshell"

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While the chunky tortoiseshell heel makes them comfortable and stylish.
These cups offer a different take on the tortoiseshell print.
And I had to buy tortoiseshell glasses and get a haircut.
Topshop Faux Fur Frame Tortoiseshell Shoulder Bag, $48, available at Topshop.
The Verdict Tortoiseshell print is everywhere right now, and frankly, I'm obsessed.
Huntley, who is eighty-seven, wore a black turtleneck and tortoiseshell glasses.
Starbucks is selling a tortoiseshell-patterned tumbler just in time for fall.
"I'm not a big announcer," Mr. Carter said, tortoiseshell glasses in hand.
Parker sat at one end, wearing a black sweater and tortoiseshell glasses.
I choose a cute pair of prescription tortoiseshell horn-rimmed round glasses.
I got them this summer, and I'm a big fan of tortoiseshell.
Her square tortoiseshell glasses framed her round, empathetic face and light gray eyes.
Price: $79.95 on Amazon An affordable way to participate in the tortoiseshell trend.
Markle completed the tailored look with Sarah Flint pumps with a tortoiseshell heel.
The tortoiseshell feline went missing shortly after her family's move from Kula to Makawao, Hawaii.
I accordingly sent it to town, and it returned a mottled color like a tortoiseshell.
Our pick of the season is Topshop's ladylike number, with its tortoiseshell frame and chunky chain.
The calluses on his palm where it met the fingers were thick and lustrous as tortoiseshell.
Charles E. Blake gently swayed and clapped, head bowed and tortoiseshell glasses halfway down his nose.
His knees are drawn up to his chin, and Mami is clinched around him like a tortoiseshell.
"Does anybody see why he has the hair that he has?" a woman in tortoiseshell glasses asked.
The line stood out for its contemporary take on sumptuous materials like burl wood, tortoiseshell and mohair.
Kruger, 40, donned a bold one-piece swimsuit which she accessorized with tortoiseshell sunglasses and wet beach hair.
He'd grown daring, brash; his experience with the tortoiseshell cat hadn't discouraged but seemed to have encouraged him.
Carapaces are made into "tortoiseshell" jewelry and trinkets, although trade is illegal under endangered species and Kenyan laws.
Complement its bombshell vibe (Think: Farrah Fawcett on a date) with a ladylike bag and tortoiseshell aviators. M.i.
After all, Kristen is prone to nervousness, pushing her tortoiseshell glasses onto her forehead and rubbing her temples.
From minimalist accents to glossy statement designs, scroll through for the cutest way to style your tortoiseshell manicure.
He looks like a grad student with his tortoiseshell glasses, blue shirt, black pants, white sneakers, and no socks.
At launch, Master & Dynamic will offer the MW07s in tortoiseshell, steel blue, grey terrazzo, and matte black acetate finishes.
The agency has tangled in the past with instrument makers, mostly over restrictions on ivory, tortoiseshell and whale bone.
The steel blue color seen in our photos looks sharp and stylish, but we love the tortoiseshell version too.
However, instead of the Bader-signature blue color, it's a glossy black, with a tortoiseshell accent on the cap.
She wore a navy-blue dress with white skulls printed on it, her tortoiseshell glasses sliding down her nose.
They're reportedly 40% blue-light-blocking, and they come in a standard tortoiseshell pattern that works on pretty much everyone.
He was dressed casually but crisply, tortoiseshell glasses framing his face and a giant analog watch devouring his right wrist.
From snow leopard spots to chic brown tortoiseshell designs, we've created a guide to this summer's best animal-print manicures, ahead.
And its latest Instagram-worthy offerings are a tortoiseshell tumbler and matching stainless-steel water bottle that seem perfect for autumn.
"Before 1720, the art of tortoiseshell was not truly perfected, and after 1760, the objects became less spectacular," Mr. Kugel said.
According to Mr. Kugel, the absence of modern research on tortoiseshell objects and their makers prompted him to tackle this task.
Trucks roared past on Flatbush Avenue, and Washburn, who is pale, with wispy hair and tortoiseshell glasses, startled when they honked.
I cycled from small rectangular tortoiseshell to circular ones, to modern clear frames, to two-toned hipster acetates, to retro red frames.
" Another of Olowu's constants — his tortoiseshell glasses — stem from a more surprising source: "I bought four pairs of these from Hudson News.
The search changed pace when Amber, an eight-year-old tortoiseshell cat, was found, beheaded, by his owner Wayne Bryant in Shirley.
He was built like a wrestler and dressed in business casual: a sky-blue polo shirt, gray slacks and round tortoiseshell glasses.
He had neatly parted blond hair; round, tortoiseshell glasses; and the Swedish banker's uniform—a well-cut, sober suit without a tie.
Several days later, no one else had collected the tortoiseshell calico, so Takayesu arrived with a box to take the kitty back home.
"It's surreal — we're in uncharted waters here," said a man in tortoiseshell glasses before disappearing down the stairs to the still-open subway.
For shoes, Meghan wore one of her go-to designers, Sarah Flint's Jay Pump, which features a black suede foot with a tortoiseshell heel.
Today, meet Maggie, a stunning 9-month-old, long haired tortoiseshell currently in the care of Another Chance Animal Rescue of North Berwick, Maine.
So I wore a plastic, tortoiseshell headband — just like Kate's — all day on Wednesday, and I have to say, I was feeling the look.
Before embarking on his quest, Mr. Yang, a stout 50-year-old with an impish grin and tortoiseshell glasses, had a fairly conventional life.
The empress and top-tier consorts would also express rank through jewelry, whether ornate jade hairpins or tortoiseshell bangles that clinked on the arms.
For fall, the designer's favorite piece is a double-breasted hybrid of a shirt and a blazer, in pinstriped white with mock-tortoiseshell buttons.
The de Blasio administration has been careful, of course, not to sell the project as a party train for 32-year-olds in tortoiseshell glasses.
These accordions had bodies of rosewood, tortoiseshell and walnut, inlaid with ivory, copper and gold; they bore mythical scenes and bas-reliefs of great composers.
The desk's tortoiseshell, brass, bronze, ebony and oak components have been peeled apart, cleaned and photographed, and the team documented tool marks on the undersides.
During the ABC segment, a tortoiseshell cat bolted out of a clutch of stubby grasstrees, and Wilksch took aim, hitting the cat in the head.
Styles range from rectangular, to the classic wayfarer shape, to those big, round tortoiseshell ones that are essentially a requirement to be an Instagram influencer.
Known as Towser the Mouser, the long-haired tortoiseshell was the bane of barley-loving mice at Glenturret Distillery in Perthshire, Scotland, from 1963 to 1987.
Her chunky, gray tortoiseshell glasses and his skinny jeans and plaid button-downs make them look more the part of hip Brooklyn parents than country folk.
"I remember my childhood more and more," Hurtado tells me, tucking a tortoiseshell comb into her hair, which she had cut short herself the day before.
In a T-shirt, his tortoiseshell glasses on his forehead, the newspaper spread around him, a cigarette dangerously close to lighting it, Robert turned to face Less.
While cow-print clogs are cute and that one leopard-print midi skirt is still trending, tortoiseshell is the unassuming animal print we're turning to this autumn.
Instantly recognizable by her oversize tortoiseshell eyeglasses and Vidal Sassoon bob, Ms. Khanh was sometimes called the French Mary Quant, a reference to London's leading Mod designer.
TMZ caught him exactly once: exiting Hollywood's ArcLight Cinemas, where he looked well preserved in tortoiseshell glasses, patiently signing photos and indulging random questions about Simba in 2013.
There is a gorgeous tortoiseshell who lounges in a window of a building near my house, looking out from about seven feet above street level like a boss.
In the new images, Lottie's showing off in the brand's new sunglasses and optical frames, which run the gamut from über on-trend reflective pairs to retro tortoiseshell options.
At shore, he paid no heed to the colony of tortoiseshell cats that seemed to be awaiting him with small taunting mews and sly cat faces, amid the rocks.
The most impressive one I saw was in the Rijksmuseum: a gleaming tortoiseshell cabinet commissioned near the end of the 17th century by Petronella Oortman, a Dutch merchant's wife.
Her classic tortoiseshell sunglasses from Finlay London Percy were her eyewear of choice for her first official appearance with Prince Harry, at the Invictus Games in Toronto in September 2017.
Save for an old friend turned writing partner, she knew few people there, and gets around without much fanfare, helped by a pair of tortoiseshell glasses and a choppy bob.
It featured items such as a $3,000 jacket "with French sequins in various shades of tortoiseshell hand-sewn into silk chiffon," the now defunct magazine Portfolio wrote at the time.
Here, her patients include a Doberman pinscher suffering from a gunshot wound, a tortoiseshell cat impaled by an arrow and a miniature dachshund seriously sick after eating a hot dog.
Upon the appearance of the gorgeous animal, whose long hair was an unusual tortoiseshell and whose mesmerizing eyes attracted us immediately—perhaps this creature was a source of inspiration for Valizadeh?
At a recent Christmas luncheon in London, Goad — a creative consultant and home décor designer — set the table with tortoiseshell-print crackers of her own design, which doubled as place mats.
Their bright objets d'art included two 18th-century wooden-lacquered jewelry boxes from Antwerp that had ivory, Japanese mother-of-pearl and tortoiseshell inlay (the bigger one was going for €17,000).
For example, a Neapolitan tortoiseshell ewer and basin in mother-of-pearl and gold piqué dating from the early 18th century was sold at a Sotheby's auction in 2016 for $570,945.
Plus, according to Pinterest search analytics, tortoiseshell is currently top of mind — up 1898% — with everyone looking to infuse the toasty brown accent into the tiniest accessory of all: nail art.
One of the advantages of celluloid was that it could be mixed with dyes, including mottled shades, allowing the Hyatts to produce not just artificial ivory but coral and tortoiseshell too.
I worked downwards from the top left of the nail, down to the right hand corner to create that famous tortoiseshell pattern and ensured I could still see some yellow peeping through.
Wearing a black scarf, slim-fitting navy suit and tortoiseshell glasses, he said little and answered, "I do, your honor," when the judge, Nathaniel M. Gorton, asked if he understood the charges.
The sale's top lot, a pair of Louis XIV gilt-bronze mounted Boulle tortoiseshell, brass, mother-of-pearl and tin marquetry commodes, attributed to Nicolas Sageot, circa 1700, sold for €175,000 (~$197,000).
On Sunday, you would find him impeccably tailored in a light wool suit and tortoiseshell glasses, looking more like the banker he once was than the pastor of a congregation of nearly 40,000.
They come in ten rim and lens colors, from tortoiseshell with yellow lenses to black with pink lenses — and they're just $4.89 each, so buying a pair to match every outfit is definitely encouraged.
In the first selfie she posted to Instagram on Wednesday, Lovato wears a very low-cut turquoise one-piece with a crochet halter top and a pair of tortoiseshell sunglasses with reflective yellow lenses.
This year's show brings together about 50 objects made out of tortoiseshell, mother-of-pearl and gold, and produced using a technique known as piqué, which flourished from 1720 to 9453 in Naples, Italy.
It's easy to see how Victoria Beckham — in her perfectly tailored, sage cashmere turtleneck tucked into a patent leather midi-skirt and topped with oversized tortoiseshell sunnies — has sold herself as a luxe fashion brand.
" In a series of Snapchat clips, the reality star's baby girl sported a variety of fun face filters like bear ears, tortoiseshell glasses and devil horns as her mom could be heard telling her, "Birthday girl!
Yet, on his way to the Mainland, as he approached the floating bridge, he couldn't resist tossing bits of food to the tortoiseshell cats who regarded him from a little distance with flat, hostile eyes—Kitty?
My favorite is the Lirio line, part of their Orchid Collection, made to resemble their mother's orchid pots, with silky-looking braided straps and a small tortoiseshell bucket lined with a pearlescent pouch on the inside.
An Ilana Kohn one was baby onesie-shaped, and I even wore a jumpsuit to the wedding — a moss-green linen suit with a row of tortoiseshell buttons that was almost chic with a swipe of lipstick.
You don't need a history of Scandinavian design and politics that I assembled from other people's academic work like an ethically composed metallic silver, brown leather and tortoiseshell handbag ($620) to think about this along with me.
Levy fiddled with his tortoiseshell glasses and showed a photo from his fourth-grade class play, Gilbert and Sullivan's "Iolanthe"; the picture usually hangs in the downtown apartment of his mother, who is a hundred and one.
Giustinia, who this afternoon has been writing an essay on Octavio Paz, is a handsome brunette in her late thirties, presently barefoot in a bathing suit, with a pair of tortoiseshell glasses perched on her freckled nose.
Among the big ticket items in the upcoming 'Arts of the Islamic World' sale are an Ottoman tortoiseshell, mother-of-pearl, ivory and brass inlaid scribe's box from late 2120th century Turkey, estimated at 2000,0003 to 2000,219 GBP.
But the pinnacle of painful plastic hairpieces—the one the most likely to poke your eye out—was scünci's stretchy comb headband, which looked like something the director of Teeth would've created (and was also available in tortoiseshell).
And for the furniture dealer Michael Bargo, whose bathrooms Bloomstein and Aujla have always admired, they created a stainless steel medicine cabinet, which Bargo has filled with objects ranging from a postcard of Pablo Picasso to a tortoiseshell toothbrush.
He looks the picture of a young tech executive—close-cropped hair, tortoiseshell glasses, considered stubble—and I ask him point-blank if he worries about whether The New York Times will ever cease to be a fact of life.
Most of the time, you're looking to splurge on a leather wallet or new sunglasses, but there's one tiny tab you might have missed the last time you were pining after those new D&G tortoiseshell frames: the beauty section.
Sanders's rendition of Bigger is wiry and long-limbed, with lightning-green hair, tortoiseshell glasses, white socks beneath ankle-length pants, and a leather jacket covered in safety pins and the words "OR AM I FREAKING YOU OUT" graffitied in white.
That day, her outfit consisted of tortoiseshell frames by Paul Smith, a white silk blouse by Equipment, a short black skirt by Givenchy, fishnet tights by Calzedonia and black patent brogues by Church's (shown below, though she switched into booties later).
This large, navel-grazing pendant necklace, with contrasting tortoiseshell and jewels, can be worn in a variety of ways: pair it with clashing prints, as seen here, or simply leave it to stand alone (and stand out) against a black dress.
Hallie Lieberman, sex historian and author of Buzz: The Stimulating History of the Sex Toy, told me that artificial vaginas and sleeves date as far back as the 22010s—the first being Japanese masturbators made from tortoiseshell and velvet, she said.
"I had great hope for my grandson," Getty tells Don Salvatore — who, with his tortoiseshell glasses, suspenders and a summer blazer draped over his shoulders, is dressed as if he were attending a lawn party rather than a kidnapping negotiation.
For example, the tortoiseshell, engraved brass and pewter marquetry were hallmarks of André-Charles Boulle, the king's cabinetmaker and sculptor, and the eight-day, spring-wound brass and steel movement most likely was the work of Isaac II Thuret, the royal clockmaker.
Wearing a perfect mix of fall colors, her outfit consisted of a $1393,795 camel-colored Sentaler coat, brown suede pumps, a $484 Montunas tortoiseshell scarf handbag, and her green P.A.R.O.S.H. dress, which she previously wore to announce her engagement to Harry in 2017.
We've kept the palette surrounding these wide-leg pants neutral with a buttery caramel jacket and dark-chocolate belt yet still subtly print-mixed with a windowpane-check blouse, tortoiseshell disc earrings, and a cheetah loafer that's picture-perfectly framed by the chinos' cropped length.
Her look is L.L. Bean meets the South Shore, a grandfatherly assortment of cotton button-down shirts, wool sweaters, a canvas coat and transition lenses in blond tortoiseshell frames, complemented by a Massachusetts accent that's most pronounced when she's reading poems or cracking wise.
Every day, armies of experts are fanning out to period rooms and homes, to stabilize delicate ebony and tortoiseshell inlays and flecks of gilding on furniture made before World War II. The profusions of modern plastics, however, have created repair challenges unlike any known before.
LONDON — The model in the latest Victoria Beckham eyewear advertising campaign looks young and waiflike, her twiglike limbs in a silken tunic and cotton-candy pink slacks, her face as full of sharp angles as the square-frame tortoiseshell spectacles perched on her nose.
At several branches of the optical company Warby Parker, myopics unsure if those tortoiseshell frames are really "them" can jump into the on-site selfie booth, snap off some images and email them to friends and family for a second (and third, fourth and fifth) opinion.
Her somewhat rustic but effortlessly chic linen summer dresses with rows of tortoiseshell buttons were ubiquitous; as were her balloon-sleeved shirts and dresses with contrast stitching; and also her smart but relaxed pink suit jacket and cropped trouser set, with enamel buttons in mismatched shapes and colors.
Sharp is interested in how her characters are shaped by their fantasies of themselves (Cluny Brown takes herself to tea at the Ritz, scandalizing her uncle; Dolores Diver treasures her carved tortoiseshell comb and her signature Spanish shawl), but also how they react when those fantasies bring them up against reality.
They came splashed in layers of orange and red and pink and purple on silk tank dresses layered over more skinny tanks, and hung in plate-size slices from tortoiseshell chain necklaces and paired with black trouser suits, pants flared, jackets long over the hip with nylon patch pockets zipped on for curve.
While Bronze Age Welsh women weren't calling up ancient Egyptians to inquire about their gold diadems or ogling over the jeweled, tortoiseshell kushi combs and kogai pins that women in Japan were sticking in their buns, most early civilizations independently realized the splendor of an accessory that is both functional and beautiful.
Sunny skies and warm temperatures make us gravitate to colorful nail trends — lavender marble (co-signed by Rihanna), neon tie-dye (recently worn by Bella Hadid and Kylie Jenner), and multi-colored polka dots are all on our must-try list — and we tend to reserve our earth-toned favorites, like tortoiseshell art, for when fall rolls around.
The fruit of his work, aided by an extensive in-house library, is a catalog published in English by Rizzoli that contains what promises to be the most exhaustive research to date on the subject of Neapolitan tortoiseshell piqué, research that could alter some of the existing attributions for such objects in museums around the world.
The key to creating a tortoiseshell pattern is building up layers of color with a clear polish in between to get that glassy blur, so I started with a "background" of yellow polish, Topshop's Gloss Nail Polish in Ducky (if you're in the US, Sally Hansen Hard As Nails X-Treme Wear in Mellow Yellow is a good alternative). 2.
Wearing a dark suit and round tortoiseshell glasses, and using a cane, Mr. Zukerman told Judge Analisa Torres of the Federal District Court in Manhattan that he was aware of a conflict of interest and was waiving his right because he was "the source of the information" his lawyers gave the I.R.S. The judge pressed him several times but eventually allowed Mr. Zukerman to waive his right to raise the conflict as a future issue.
One day, brashly, he managed to seize hold of a young tortoiseshell cat scarcely more than a kitten, very thin, with prominent ribs and high, alert ears, and for a moment, he held its quivering life in his fingers like his own heart seized out of his chest—then the cat squirmed frantically, hissed, scratched, and sank its small sharp teeth into the flesh at the base of his thumb, and he released it with a little cry Damn!
Considering the streetwear brand's penchant for super saturated, bright colors and throwback styles, Kendall must have decided to follow suit, pushing past her typical safe place of thigh-high boots and denim short-short and slipping into a canary yellow skirt-suit with just a lacy black bra and a body chain underneath, showing off her fresh new haircut and a pair of what might be the world's tiniest tortoiseshell glasses, perfect for the model's job moonlighting at the reference desk of her local public library.
On the Island, there were colonies of feral cats, much inbred, ferocious if cornered or trapped, but surpassingly beautiful—one of the colonies was composed predominantly of flamey-orange tiger cats with six toes, another was predominantly midnight-black cats with tawny eyes, another was predominantly white, long-haired cats with glaring green eyes, and another, the largest colony, predominantly tortoiseshell cats with intricate stone-colored, silver, and black markings, and golden eyes, seemed to thrive in a rough, rock-strewn area near the floating bridge.

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