canvasback
Americannoun
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canvasbacks,
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canvasback
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Origin of canvasback
An Americanism dating back to 1595–1605; after the canvaslike color of its back
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On the banks of Yosemite Creek, brown-headed canvasback ducks plunged and preened.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2021
He was a master of the graduated political gift; Presidents occasionally might receive a case of Madeira, while Cabinet members would rate only terrapin, and Congressmen wound up with canvasback duck.
From Time Magazine Archive
At 6:23 a.m., a flight of canvasback ducks wheeled confidently in.
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An early Portland matron startled the populace with a carriage robe made of the breast feathers of 144 canvasback ducks.
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"Well, one thing sure," declared Nick, admiringly; "if ever Jack Stormways pulls trigger on a canvasback, he goes along with this bully crowd, all right."
From Motor Boat Boys Down the Coast or Through Storm and Stress to Florida by Louis Arundel
Also spotted, but in fewer numbers, were snow geese, buffleheads, redheads, goldeneyes, American widgeon, ruddy, ring-necked, canvasbacks, scaup and wood ducks.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 15, 2015
I continued my coaxing and in a few days three of the four young canvasbacks would come to me for food.
From Time Magazine Archive
To boot, the very names of the birds roll off the tongue like a song: pintails, canvasbacks, eiders and green-headed mallards, snow geese, marsh wrens, white-winged scoters and cinnamon teal.
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Mr. Chrysler explained that he regularly scattered grain over his marshes except during hunting season, said 500 canvasbacks had boarded there last winter.
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I stick to terrapin, green turtle, canvasbacks, and the like, and every young chap in the land slaps me on the back, calls me Billy, and regards me as a contemporary.
From Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1 by Slason Thompson
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