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  • noun Plural form of mavis.

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Examples

  • She has yellow hair-down to her feet, and she has blue eyes, like the sky on a fine day, and her voice like all the mavises singing in the spring.

    The Gold Of Fairnilee Andrew Lang 1878

  • "But I wouldna gie my fifteen for your seventeen, for five of mine are larks and mavises.

    The Story of My Boyhood and Youth John Muir 1876

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