long-tailed

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   clothing: having long rear skirts, panels, or tails

   He carried an old long-tailed blue coat over one arm.

2. 2
   adj

   having a long tail, especially as part of an animal's common name

   A long-tailed bird balanced on the narrow reed.

A compound of long + tailed. It describes both animals with an extended tail and garments whose back panels or coat-tails are unusually long, the latter being Twain's use.

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