talon
| In music, the heel (or nut) of the bow of a string instrument. |
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the other repeated, reaching his one talon into his side coat pocket with swift definiteness. He introduced himself, smiling a smirky smile borrowed from the courtiers of the stage, extended a fair-skinned talon, and while he gripped my hand in it he bent his body forward three times at the hips, as the stage courtier does, and said in the airiest and most condescending and patronizing way--I quite remember his exact language: He put out a strangely distorted talon and gripped my fingers. |
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