Nightingale

Definitions

1. A Eurasian and African songbird, Luscinia megarhynchos, family Muscicapidae, famed for its beautiful singing at night; a common nightingale.
2. A kind of flannel scarf with sleeves, formerly worn by invalids when sitting up in bed.
3. A surname.

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Examples

“Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet neere day: / It was the Nightingale, and not the Larke, / That pier'ſt the fearefull hollow of thine eare”

“Some admired the external beauties of the objects they beheld, like⟳ the nightingale in love⟳ with the roſe.”

“The oaks around were the home of a tribe of nightingales.”

“And David's Lips are lock't; but in divine High piping Péhlevi, with "Wine! Wine! Wine! Red Wine!" — the Nightingale cries to the Rose That yellow Cheek of her's to'incarnadine.”

“The air, too, was heavy with perfume, and a nightingale, high in the heavens, gave out a cheery song of welcome⟳.”

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