redbird
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of redbird
Example Sentences
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Watching with delight in spring as a male redbird presents his mate with an edible demonstration of his “fitness as a partner,” she comments, “In the avian world, a grub is an engagement ring.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
I wanted to roll it in my palm like the head of a small redbird until it sang to me.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 12, 2016
He knew of a probable customer for it in a gentleman named Morris, who had been advertising in the papers for a redbird.
From Dickey Downy The Autobiography of a Bird by Patterson, Virginia Sharpe
Among our acquaintances was a lame redbird who at one time had been trapped and made a prisoner, confined behind the bars of a wire cell for many weeks and months.
From Dickey Downy The Autobiography of a Bird by Patterson, Virginia Sharpe
Johnny Morris capered and danced and jumped so hard in the exuberance of his joy at receiving the redbird that all the way to the sitting room his mother was coaxing him to be quiet.
From Dickey Downy The Autobiography of a Bird by Patterson, Virginia Sharpe
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