tortoiseshell

an elaborate inlay of tortoiseshell, ivory, and metal

She owns a beautiful tortoiseshell cat.

The antique shop sells a variety of tortoiseshell jewelry pieces.

I found a tortoiseshell comb at the flea market.

Tortoiseshell glasses are back in fashion.

The old tortoiseshell mirror reflected her image back at her.

He plays a tortoiseshell guitar in the band.

The artist used tortoiseshell as a material for his sculpture.

Tortoiseshell hair accessories are popular among young women.

The antique clock had a tortoiseshell inlay on its face.

She admired the intricate design of the tortoiseshell box.

Like Hoffman he was dark-complexioned, wore tortoiseshell spectacles, and drove a Ford Sedan.

They were inscribed on pieces of tortoiseshell and fragments of bone.

So at the minute, these are my favorite, some tortoiseshell Chanel.

The cigarettes were in a cheap Chinese or Japanese case of imitation tortoiseshell.

In the doorway stood the maid. She held a big tortoiseshell cat pressed tight against her and swung down against her body.

But it could be tinted and patterned to mimic more expensive materials like coral, tortoiseshell, amber, and mother-of-pearl.

It was made of embroidered silk, a dragon on each side, a frame of imitation tortoiseshell so thin it was hardly there at all.

Despite the hour, she was dressed as if for a wedding, in a raspberry pink duster coat, a red pillbox hat, and huge tortoiseshell sunglasses that obscured her tiny, wrinkled face.