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ˈpigeon-wing, n.
1. A wing belonging to, or like that of, a pigeon.
1781Cowper Conversation 576 Like angel heads in stone with pigeon-wings.
2. A mode of dressing the side hair, fashionable with men towards the end of the 18th c.; also, a wig of the same form.
1889G. W. Cable Stories of Louisiana xiii. 94 It was impossible for us to work up a [hair] club and pigeon wings like those I saw on the two young Du Clozels.
3. A particular fancy step in dancing; also, a dance; the music for such a dance or dance-step. Also, a fancy figure in skating. U.S.
1807–8W. Irving Salmag. (1824) 78 [He] is famous at the pirouet and the pigeon-wing. [1849J. P. Morier M. Toutrond 166 Camille was very skilful at cutting capers..I shone in making pigeon's wings, and I made plenty of room for myself among the islanders.] 1854W. Irving in Life 6 Apr., The scene brought my old dancing-school days back again, and I felt very much like cutting a pigeon-wing. 1873B. Harte Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands 166 A light figure..cut a pigeon-wing,..and then advanced to the footlights. 1889Century Mag. Apr. 858/2 A row of cavaliers..cut the pigeon wing in square-toed pumps. 1935Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men (1970) i. v. 117 Jack was justa dancin' fallin' off de log and cuttin' de pigeon wing—(diddle dip, diddle dip—diddle dip) ‘from pine to pine Mr. Pinkney’. 1947E. H. Paul Linden on Saugus Branch 50 He had..a Chickering grand piano on which he played..all the reels, jigs, pigeon-wings, moriscos, sarabands, [etc.]. 1954Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxi. 34 Pigeonwing, a type of dance involving the use of the arms.
Hence ˈpigeon-wing v., (a) trans. (see 3 above);(b) refl., to convey or transport (oneself) by or in the manner of one dancing or cutting pigeon-wings.
1826F. Cooper Mohicans (1829) II. iv. 59 The toes are squared, as though one of the French dancers had been in, pigeon-winging his tribe! 1839Poe Devil in Belfry in Tales of Grotesque (1840) 166 The rascal..pigeon-winged himself right up into the belfry of the House of the Town Council. |