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Pigeonwing

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(1):

(n.) A fancy step executed by jumping and striking the legs together; as, to cut a pigeonwing.

(2):

(n.) A certain fancy figure in skating.

(3):

(n.) A color, brown shaded with purple, coming between dark brown and light blue in the table of colors in drawing the temper of hardened steel.

(4):

(n.) An old mode of dressing men's side hair in a form likened to a pigeon's wings; also, a wig similarly shaped.

(5):

(n.) A wing of a pigeon, or a wing like it.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Pigeonwing'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/pigeonwing.html. 1828.
 
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