crested tit

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noun

a small European songbird, Parus cristatus, that has a greyish-brown plumage with a prominent speckled black-and-white crest: family Paridae (tits)

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Words nearby crested tit

Cressy, crest, cresta run, crest cloud, crested dog's-tail, crested tit, crested wheatgrass, crestfallen, cresting, Crestone Needle, Crestone Peak

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Anyone “sucking the tit of the NRA,” he said, “can get off my train.”
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This means that tit-pic-posting your exes will finally be illegal, and that some shred of justice will be served.
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A golden eagle, the armorial ensign of the Ripperda family, crested the centre arch.
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He has his particular likings and tit-bits, and is very expert in carving out the parts of an animal that please him best.
Hunting the Lions|R.M. Ballantyne
It does not contain great pieces, but tit-bits of pictures, such as suit an aristocratic epicure.
Little Travels and Roadside Sketches|William Makepeace Thackeray
The sea is black, with sufficient swell on it to cause a few crested waves here and there to gleam intensely white by contrast.
The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands|R.M. Ballantyne
On heavily-crested stationery follow the missives of the ladies whose daughters would make sweet bridesmaids.
With Edged Tools|Henry Seton Merriman

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