pigeonwing

A mode of dressing the side hair adopted by men especially in the latter part of the eighteenth century; also, a wig so called.

A brisk fancy step or caper in dancing, skating, etc.: as, to cut a pigeonwing.

A wing of a pigeon, or a wing like it.

An old mode of dressing men’s side hair in a form likened to a pigeon’s wings; also, a wig similarly shaped.

A fancy step executed by jumping and striking the legs together.

A certain fancy figure in skating.

A color, brown shaded with purple, coming between dark brown and light blue in the table of colors in drawing the temper of hardened steel.