volucrine

"What, that thing like a Chinese tumbler -- that peg of old clothes -- that one foot square of mortality, with an aquatic-volucrine face, like a spoonbill?"

Pelham — Volume 03 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

"What, that thing like a Chinese tumbler -- that peg of old clothes -- that one foot square of mortality, with an aquatic-volucrine face, like a spoonbill?"

Pelham — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

For her socioscientific sense is sound as a bell, sir, her volucrine automutativeness right on normalcy: she knows, she just feels she was kind of born to lay and love eggs (trust her to propagate the species and hoosh her fluffballs safe through din and danger!); lastly but mostly, in her genesic field it is all game and no gammon; she is ladylike in everything she does and plays the gentleman’s part every time.

Finnegans Wake 2006