peacock's tail

noun

1. a handsome brown seaweed, Padina pavonia (though coloured yellow-olive, red, and green) whose fan-shaped fronds have concentric bands of iridescent hairs

Example Sentences

A domed ceiling held the rich blue color of a peacock's tail trimmed with gold.

From Literature

In 1860 Charles Darwin wrote, “The sight of a feather in a peacock’s tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes me sick!”

From National Geographic

Sometimes, they’re decorations to attract a female’s eye, like a peacock’s tail feathers or the vibrant colors on a lizard’s belly.

From New York Times

In the gallery devoted to E-1027, make sure to select the white dining room serving table, so you can see its four pivoting drawers fanned out like a peacock’s tail.

From New York Times

Its interior contains some of the finest tilework to be found anywhere in the world, especially the dome with its unfathomably complex geometric patterns, said to resemble a peacock’s tail – testament to untold millions of hours of care and labour.

From The Guardian