butterfly-knotted

English

Adjective

butterfly-knotted (not comparable)

1. Tied in a butterfly knot or knots.
   • 1970, J.P.S. Brown, Jim Kane, New York, N.Y.: The Dial Press, Inc., →LCCN, pages 161–162:

     The charro wears the traditional big-winged sombrero tied under his chin; the butterfly-knotted tie adorning his breast; the leg-fitting trousers and leather leggings; the waist jacket with thin lapels held by one button over the breast.

   • 1970, Richard Llewellyn, White Horse to Banbury Cross, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, page 170:

     Getting out of the car, I saw the white-kerchieved butterfly-knotted heads stretching all the way down, hundreds, solid, silent, no move.

   • 1980 August 10, Tropic (The Miami Herald, 70th year, number 254), page 11:

     He rises to get a butterfly-knotted length of yarn from the yarn rack, then sits down and turns on the tape recorder for instructions.

   • 2004, Gwendoline Riley, Sick Notes, Vintage, published 2005, →ISBN, page 130:

     I was sick against a wall behind an office, on a pile of baby-blue, butterfly-knotted carrier bags which were spilling shredded paper on a pavement already stained dark.

   • 2016, Pascal Mérigeau, translated by Bruce Benderson, Jean Renoir: A Biography, RatPac Press, →ISBN:

     In the shadows, hanging on the walls or merely leaning against them, were dozens of paintings, drawings, landscapes, and portraits, a prominent spot reserved for the one of Jean dressed as a hunter, wearing a cap and a butterfly-knotted ascot, his left hand on his hip, his right holding the barrel of a gun with the butt resting on the ground and a dog at his feet.