spart (spart)

[F. sparte = Sp. Pg. esparto = It. spar to, The nature of spart or Spanish broo me. 1. A Holland , tr. of Pliny, bk. xix. ( Davies .) 2. A rush, Juncus articulatus , and other spe II. a . Having a long skirt cut away at the sides and squared off at the end: as, a sparrow -cies. [Prov. Eng.] tail coat (now usually called swallow - tail ). The lawyers in their blue sparrow - tail coats with bra buttons, which constituted then (about 1840] a kind of profe ional uniform, moved about with as much animation as uneasy jay-birds. E. Eggleston, The Graysons, xxvi.