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Butterfly

noun

(pl. butterflies)

Diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings.

A swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down. Synonym: butterfly stroke.

verb

Flutter like a butterfly.

Cut and spread open, as in preparation for cooking.

Talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions. Synonyms: chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, mash, philander, romance. "My husband never flirts with other women"

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"Butterfly" Quotes from Famous Books

... buy their bread. In this emergency, they hit upon the expedient of dismissing their servant, and starving themselves through the winter and spring, for the purpose of making a display in the summer; and this last they were now doing. Eugenia fluttered like a butterfly, sometimes in white satin, sometimes in pink, and again in embroidered muslin; while her mother, a very little disgusted with society, but still determined to brave it through, held aside her cambric wrapper and made faces over three glasses of spring water in the morning, drowned herself in ...

— Dora Deane • Mary J. Holmes

... in itself, which, if it be considered as a crisis, or phenomenal change, incident to a progressive being, ought as little to be thought so, as the casting of the caterpillar's skin to make room for the wings of the butterfly. It is the ...

— The Literary Remains Of Samuel Taylor Coleridge • Edited By Henry Nelson Coleridge

... that thou dost grow more unmannerly each day. Thou art as unthinking as the butterfly, else thou wouldst not have burdened my fore-wearied flesh ...

— In Doublet and Hose - A Story for Girls • Lucy Foster Madison

... Not to mention other things, she instituted and practised economies as alien to her nature as to her husband's, and in their narrowing affairs she kept him out of debt. She was prudent; she was alert; and while presenting to the world all the outward effect of a butterfly, she possessed some of the best ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... even though she kept the path and she was going on her way as she had elected to before she saw him. But to Jeff she seemed to be a drifting thing. A delicate butterfly floated past him, weakened by the coldness of last night and fluttering on into a ...

— The Prisoner • Alice Brown

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