Swedish Nightingale

noun

1. nickname of Jenny Lind.

Example Sentences

But she will return on Thursday for an ambitious program of early-18th-century arias: “The Swedish Nightingale,” joined by the Venice Baroque Orchestra at Zankel Hall.

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Political figures and celebrities appear too: George Washington on horseback, or Jenny Lind, the singer known as the “Swedish Nightingale,” who is shown at the center of a large floral wreath.

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To the Queen's House in the Haymarket to hear Jenny Lind, whom Everybody do call the Swedish Nightingale.

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During my own lessons with him he would often speak of the Swedish Nightingale, and hold her up as an example in the most embarrassing way.

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They called me 'the Swedish Nightingale,' and you can imagine how I felt,—a nightingale in such a climate, and Swedish at that.

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