"butterfly-knotted" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1970, J.P.S. Brown, Jim Kane, New York, N.Y.: The Dial Press, Inc., →LCCN, pages 161–162",
          "text": "The charro wears the traditional big-winged sombrero tied under his chin; the butterfly-knotted tie adorning his breast; the leg-fitting trousers and leather leggings; the waist jacket with thin lapels held by one button over the breast.",
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          "ref": "1970, Richard Llewellyn, White Horse to Banbury Cross, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, page 170",
          "text": "Getting out of the car, I saw the white-kerchieved butterfly-knotted heads stretching all the way down, hundreds, solid, silent, no move.",
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          "ref": "1980 August 10, Tropic (The Miami Herald, 70th year, number 254), page 11",
          "text": "He rises to get a butterfly-knotted length of yarn from the yarn rack, then sits down and turns on the tape recorder for instructions.",
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        {
          "ref": "2004, Gwendoline Riley, Sick Notes, Vintage, published 2005, page 130",
          "text": "I was sick against a wall behind an office, on a pile of baby-blue, butterfly-knotted carrier bags which were spilling shredded paper on a pavement already stained dark.",
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          "ref": "2016, Pascal Mérigeau, translated by Bruce Benderson, Jean Renoir: A Biography, RatPac Press",
          "text": "In the shadows, hanging on the walls or merely leaning against them, were dozens of paintings, drawings, landscapes, and portraits, a prominent spot reserved for the one of Jean dressed as a hunter, wearing a cap and a butterfly-knotted ascot, his left hand on his hip, his right holding the barrel of a gun with the butt resting on the ground and a dog at his feet.",
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        "Tied in a butterfly knot or knots."
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  "word": "butterfly-knotted"
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          "text": "The charro wears the traditional big-winged sombrero tied under his chin; the butterfly-knotted tie adorning his breast; the leg-fitting trousers and leather leggings; the waist jacket with thin lapels held by one button over the breast.",
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          "ref": "1970, Richard Llewellyn, White Horse to Banbury Cross, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, page 170",
          "text": "Getting out of the car, I saw the white-kerchieved butterfly-knotted heads stretching all the way down, hundreds, solid, silent, no move.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1980 August 10, Tropic (The Miami Herald, 70th year, number 254), page 11",
          "text": "He rises to get a butterfly-knotted length of yarn from the yarn rack, then sits down and turns on the tape recorder for instructions.",
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          "ref": "2004, Gwendoline Riley, Sick Notes, Vintage, published 2005, page 130",
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          "text": "In the shadows, hanging on the walls or merely leaning against them, were dozens of paintings, drawings, landscapes, and portraits, a prominent spot reserved for the one of Jean dressed as a hunter, wearing a cap and a butterfly-knotted ascot, his left hand on his hip, his right holding the barrel of a gun with the butt resting on the ground and a dog at his feet.",
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