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His club and pi geon - wings were with three or four pins of gold, and his white-powdered queue was wrapped with a black velvet ribbon shot with silver. G. W. Cable , Stories of Louisiana, xiii. 2. A brisk fancy step or caper in dancing, skating, etc.: as, to cut a pigeonwing . Shaking off straw and furs, wraps and pattens, the ladies had no sooner swallowed cups of tea than they were whisked into line for the Virginia reel, over against a row of cavaliers arrayed with back-seam coat-buttons coming beneath their shoulder-blades, who cut the pigeon - wing in square-toed pumps. Then what life, what joyous frisk ing! The Century , XXXVII. 858. pigeon wood (pij'on-wud), п . A name of various trees or their wood, from the marking or coloring of the latter. (a) Pisonia obtusata of the West Indies and Florida: also called beefwood , corkwood , and porkwood . (b) Dipholis salic i folia , a large fragrant tree; Diospyros tetra sperm a , a shrub; and several species of Coc coloba all of the West Indies. (c) Guettarda speciosa , a small evergreen of tropical shores in both hemispheres. ( d ) Connarus Guianensis ( Omphalobium Lambert i i ) of South