cushat
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of cushat
before 900; Middle English couschot, Old English cūscote wood pigeon
Example Sentences
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How quiet and still it was, only the breeze in the elms, the cuckoo’s notes, and the murmur of the unseen cushat!
From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Stables, Gordon
The peregrines had killed cushat and partridge, the merlin its half-score of buntings and turtle-doves, and the ladies having had a surfeit of sport, were about setting faces homeward.
From No Quarter! by Reid, Mayne
O sweet are Coila’s haughs an’ woods, When lintwhites chant amang the buds, And jinkin’ hares, in amorous whids Their loves enjoy, While thro’ the braes the cushat croods With wailfu’ cry!
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert
Here a cushat occasionally dashed away, or a jay awoke the echoes at safe distance.
From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Buck, Walter J.
Shyest of the winged sylvans, the cushat clapped not her wings away on the soft approach of such harmless footsteps to the pine that concealed her slender nest.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde
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