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firebird

[fahyuh r-burd]

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noun

any of several small birds having bright red or orange plumage, especially the Baltimore oriole.

Origin of firebird

First recorded in 1815–25; fire + bird

Firebird, The

[fahyuh r-burd]

noun

a ballet (1910) with music by Stravinsky.

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Examples from the Web for firebird

Contemporary Examples of firebird

Mick Coury was a normal teenager with a Firebird and a good-looking girlfriend until schizophrenia incapacitated him at 17.
A Bar of Paranoid Schizos: Robert Boswell’s ‘Tumbledown’
Drew Toal
August 6, 2013

Historical Examples of firebird

Peter had heard him called the Firebird, and now he understood why.
The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Thornton W. Burgess
Dost thou know the firebird, with his coat of red, and the yellow finches and the bluebirds?
A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia
Amanda Minnie Douglas
When we played the Stravinsky pieces here, for instance, his Pétrouschka and Firebird had not yet been heard.
Violin Mastery
Frederick H. Martens
The sea piled itself into waves with crests of foam, and the firebird came flying from the other side of the world.
Old Peter's Russian Tales
Arthur Ransome

British Dictionary definitions for firebird

firebird

noun

mainly US any of various songbirds having a bright red plumage, esp the Baltimore oriole

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