Relatively small head and less well marked facial disc than other owls are its best field marks, together with distinctive habit of flicking tail.

They also shed their distinctive but cumbersome habits in which they had been clad.

Whether the distinctive habit first developed on the mainland or in Guernsey is uncertain.

They no longer wear their distinctive habit and now wear street clothes.

Alice has a distinctive habit of muttering to herself.

It was impossible to be certain, since the custom of monks wearing distinctive habits was still in the future.

The settlers brought with them distinctive habits and attitudes that influenced the choice of food, work and recreational activity.

It was a distinctive habit and not unpleasant.

Providing food to travellers was also one of his distinctive habits.

'Plot's Elm' was a tree with a most distinctive habit.