Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Belted or banded with red: as, the red-belted clearwing, a moth, Trochilium myopæforme.
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Examples
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We passed Port Roosevelt, where there was a glimpse of red-belted ocean-going ships, and sped along a cobbled slum lined with the dark, undeserted saloons of the faded-gilt nineteen-hundreds.
The Great Gatsby 2003
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I have found the latter very effective with the red-belted apple clearwing (Sesia myopiformis), and no doubt it would also prove so with other species of the class.
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There were about fifty of them, picked; all attired in black stockings, in dark-blue knickerbockers, and in tunics that reached to the knee, red-belted and trimmed with red.
The Combined Maze May Sinclair 1904
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Well, during the May building-operations, there is not a Bee in sight clad in black, with a slender, red-belted abdomen; in short, not a male.
Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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When the marriage is consummated, the red-belted one quits the spot and goes to die outside the burrow, after dragging from flower to flower the bit of life that remains to him.
Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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