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Meanings of white wing in English

Experimental aircraft by the Aerial Experiments Association.

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Usage of white wing in English
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Here is one magnified to show the white wing covers with black markings.
The Insect Folk
2
There was even a teardrop-shaped swimming pool beneath a spectacular white wing roof.
The evolutionary void
3
The only ornament which he allowed himself was the white wing of a ptarmigan.
The Prairie Chief
4
A pretty yacht, with one white wing, slowly moved along.
Memories of Hawthorne
5
Blood pooled in rubies on its chest and stained its white wing feathers crimson.
Smoke and mirrors: short fictions and illusions
6
The hat was also red with a white wing.
The Debtor: A Novel
7
One white wing is off-kilter and dragging behind him.
World After
8
I watch the sail, loose now, flap like the great white wing of a pelican.
My Sister's Keeper
9
Presently, up came a dainty breeze, wafting to us a white wing from the shore-thepilot-boat!
Redburn. His First Voyage / Being the Sailor Boy Confessions and...
10
The wings of the eagle span the entire headboard, the white wing tips touching the twin posts.
Gods go begging
11
A sentry outside a door in a curving white wing of the Palace said that the commandant was inside.
Ten Days That Shook the World
12
He almost ground his teeth as he saw the sun shining on the far white wing of Luxmore Hall.
John Halifax, Gentleman
13
As we see thirty-five dollars, would only pay one white wing for his trouble in sweeping up one cinder.
The new yorker
14
That must have been loud because some gulls explode away from the pier in a puff of white wing.
Real life & liars
15
Gittes on the ground can see only his tormentor's two-tone brown and white wing-tipped shoes, lightly freckled with his blood.
Chinatown
16
She was dressed with cheap neatness, the soiled white wing of a bird in her black hat being the only touch of bravura.
The Mountebank
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