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  • noun Plural form of bronzewing.

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Examples

  • Condensed milk and brandy, thin cornflour and chlorodyne, I doctored him with; he was a very obedient patient, whose pangs of hunger were aggravated by watching us feeding daily on bronzewings, wallabies, and galahs.

    Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

  • Of the bronzewings, which at sundown and before sunrise lined the rocks literally in hundreds, we shot as many as we wanted.

    Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

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