Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Like a tiger in coloration: noting various striped or spotted animals, often translating the specific technical word tigrinus or tigrina. Also
tigerine .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a tiger; like a tiger.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Resembling the tiger in color.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the
tiger .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But the characters in this book, both human and tigrine, are more nuanced.
Review of John Vaillant's "The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival" Sy Montgomery 2010
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She was gowned once more in the yellow and black, and stood in tigrine splendor cap-a-pie.
Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain Herbert Quick 1893
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Dim reminiscences of such a figure sitting in shadowy background, while a glorious tigrine woman ruled over some realm only half-cognized, vexed the crepuscular and terror-breeding reaches of his mind.
Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain Herbert Quick 1893
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And now eyes and face and hair, and Madame le Claire -- all passed away; and Florian Amidon became as naught, and the tigrine lady and the faded professor played with the thing which had been he, as upon a machine.
Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain Herbert Quick 1893
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The tigrine Le Claire advanced from a bay-window, bringing a slender man with stooped shoulders.
Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain Herbert Quick 1893
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With tigrine claw thou mangiest my speech, thy cheeks are like
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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With tigrine claw thou mangiest my speech, thy cheeks are like
Evan Harrington — Volume 7 George Meredith 1868
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With tigrine claw thou mangiest my speech, thy cheeks are like December's pippin, and thy tongue most sour! '
Evan Harrington — Complete George Meredith 1868
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Every government that fell for the tigrine wiles emerged from peace traps with a bloody nose.
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Every government that fell for the tigrine wiles emerged from peace traps with a bloody nose.
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