woodnote

American  

[wood-noht] / ˈwʊdˌnoʊt /

noun

1. a wild or natural musical tone, as that of a forest bird.

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woodnote British  

/ ˈwʊdˌnəʊt /

noun

1. a natural musical note or song, like that of a wild bird

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Etymology

Origin of woodnote

First recorded in 1625–35; wood ¹ + note

Example Sentences

The case of that one in the large number of my cousins whom we have seen to be so incomparably the most interesting was of course anything but the usual; yet the Albany origin, the woodnote wild, sounded out even amid her various voices and kept her true, in her way, to something we could only have called local, or perhaps family, type.

From Project Gutenberg

Again the songs in Beaumont and Fletcher stand very high, perhaps highest of all next to Shakespere's in respect of the "woodnote wild."

From Project Gutenberg

We cower before th' heart-searching eye    In rapture as its pain; E'en wedded Love, till Thou be nigh,    Dares not believe her gain: Then in the air she fearless springs, The breath of Heaven beneath her wings, And leaves her woodnote wild, and sings    A tuned and measured strain.

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