Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A book-name, derived from French authors, of warblers in general, as a sylvia or ficedula: especially applied to the common garden-warbler of Europe, Sylvia hortensis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A small singing bird, as the nightingale and warblers.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
songbird , such as anightingale orwarbler .
Etymologies
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French, diminutive from fauve fawn-coloured.
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Examples
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The warm air of the valley reached them where they were, laden with the perfumes of the wild-flowers of the neighboring woods; the fauvette could still be heard, and the nightingale sent forth in the darkening shade of the thickets his melodious song to the stars.
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