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robin redbreast

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noun

robin(defs 1, 2).

Origin of robin redbreast

1400–50; late Middle English (Scots); robin, special use of Robin

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Historical Examples of robin redbreast

Then was it the beetles who were burying the robin-redbreast?
Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men
Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
And so to December and the end of the year, which the robin-redbreast always sings out with a happy Christmas carol.
Birds of the wave and woodland
Phil (Philip Stewart) Robinson
I did not mean to trouble her, but I was determined not to lose the chance of being Brother of Pity to a robin-redbreast.
Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men
Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing