Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A common fringilline bird of southern Europe, also called citril-finch, Fringilla or Chrysomitris citrinella: so called from the color of its breast.
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Examples
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Justen dipped his bread into the thick sauce, letting the spicy warmth, the mixed tang of rosemary and citril and bertil, ease down his throat.
The Order War Modesitt, L. E. 1995
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Justen dipped his bread into the thick sauce, letting the spicy warmth, the mixed tang of rosemary and citril and bertil, ease down his throat.
The Order War Modesitt, L. E. 1995
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That reasoning got me down to the snack table in the divers 'mess, where I polished off two chysts, a large chunk of cheese and a handful of very hard crackers, all washed down with warm and almost sour citril.
Timegod's World Modesitt, L. E. 1992
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I took another sip of citril and another mouthful of the buffalo steak.
Timegod's World Modesitt, L. E. 1992
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Paring the cheese into smaller slices, I put them on the second slice of rough grain bread and began to eat, finally washing the remnants down with the last of the citril in my mug.
Timegod's World Modesitt, L. E. 1992
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The kitchen was empty when I sat down for a bite of breakfast -- cheese and bread, washed down with some citril.
Timegod's World Modesitt, L. E. 1992
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- a Yelkouan shearwater, from the Mediterranean; and a citril finch, from the Alps - would be the first visits of these species to the country.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009
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