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bunting
1[ buhn-ting ]
noun
- a coarse, open fabric of worsted or cotton for flags, signals, etc.
- patriotic and festive decorations made from such cloth, or from paper, usually in the form of draperies, wide streamers, etc., in the colors of the national flag.
- flags, especially a vessel's flags, collectively.
bunting
2[ buhn-ting ]
noun
- any of several small, chiefly seed-eating birds of the genera Emberiza, Passerina, and Plectrophenax.
bunting
3[ buhn-ting ]
noun
- a hooded sleeping garment for infants.
bunting
1/ ˈbʌntɪŋ /
noun
- a coarse, loosely woven cotton fabric used for flags, etc
- decorative flags, pennants, and streamers
- flags collectively, esp those of a boat
Bunting
2/ ˈbʌntɪŋ /
noun
- BuntingBasil19001985MBritishWRITING: poet Basil . 1900–85, British poet, author of Briggflatts (1966)
bunting
3/ ˈbʌntɪŋ /
noun
- any of numerous seed-eating songbirds of the families Fringillidae (finches, etc) or Emberizidae , esp those of the genera Emberiza of the Old World and Passerina of North America. They all have short stout bills
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Example Sentences
She was even sweet to that smug ingrate Miss Bunting after she kept insulting everyone at dinner.
Black and purple bunting went up over the doorway at the 84th Precinct stationhouse where Ramos and Liu had been assigned.
The big placard advertising the show was now trimmed with red-white-and-blue bunting: ANIMALS IN SPACE!
Or at least, we wouldn't celebrate it with two weeks of bunting.
Shops are covered in Union Jacks, bunting has sold out, and everyone loves an excuse to bake patriotic cookies.
Every rag of bunting, from the tiny streamer of the fishing-boat to the great flag of ships of war, droops against the mast.
He would let Bunting travel light to the Rio Seco, and then load him for her as no burro ever was loaded to cross the border!
But Chappo waved him onward, for the wagon and the pack mules, and even little gray Bunting had turned reluctant feet north.
It isn't just colors and bunting—The red and the blue and the white.
As he walked along he noticed that the street was gay with bunting.
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