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  • noun Plural form of bantam.

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Examples

  • I don't know much about chickens like name wise such as bantams, I just know they were rhode island reds.

    Progressive U - The new media voice for students 2009

  • "bantams," "little and good," who, after being rejected for their diminutive stature, are now joining up under the new regulations:

    Mr. Punch's History of the Great War 1900

  • I loved it, and still do, but when I saw my first low-profile Shimano bantams and those early Daiwa Procasters it was love at first sight.

    Baitcasters Then & Now 2009

  • Sally Jaine, Totnes, DevonThey must have – our four bantams will only eat one variety of cabbage, and a call of "sweetcorn" will have them running faster than you'd think possible.

    Notes and queries: Pecking order: chicken's favourite snacks; skirting board as cognitive dissonance softener; Byron's trudge across the Tagus 2011

  • I loved it, and still do, but when I saw my first low-profile Shimano bantams and those early Daiwa Procasters it was love at first sight.

    Baitcasters Then & Now 2009

  • There were bantams, about the size of a fifty-cent piece, and regular sized chicks more than twice that big.

    The Chicken Chronicles Sandra Knauf 2010

  • Yesterday morning, the second day of being awakened at five thirty by the crowing-but-not-growing roosters, I placed the ringleaders, that impulse-purchase pair of bantams, in blackout conditions inside a cardboard box down in the basement.

    MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

  • We end up with twenty-five mixed-breed chicks: Cornish Cross, Rhode Island Reds, and blue Plymouth Rocks (or blue Rocks), mixed with a salt-and-pepper team of bantams (strictly a vanity purchase), and four ducklings.

    MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

  •      Searching through cages of bantams, we found no Cochins or Araucanas, but I located a half dozen Mille Fleurs, and my decision was made.

    The Chicken Chronicles Sandra Knauf 2010

  • With the latter two I forgot to ask the breed, and as bantams are too small to “sex” we didn't know how many would turn out to be hens and how many cockalorums.

    The Chicken Chronicles Sandra Knauf 2010

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