corn crake
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of corn crake
First recorded in 1545–55
Example Sentences
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All that is winged, even the grating corn crake, is painted with a mystical birder’s unworldly rose-colored pianistic glasses.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2021
For each lucky birder who saw the Cedar Beach corn crake, there are thousands of others who wish they had, myself included.
From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2018
The Cedar Beach bird was only the second corn crake recorded in New York State since Grover Cleveland was president.
From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2018
"She was certainly not pretty"; her voice was that of a "corn crake muffled under an eiderdown," and the hatred in her eyes "swept . . . like the strokes of a scythe."
From Time Magazine Archive
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