Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a red or reddish breast.
- A misnomer of the American woodcock, Philohela minor.
- Same as
redbreast , 3.
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Examples
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At a sale hosted by Christie's in New York in 2007, a record $856,000 was paid for a red-breasted merganser hen made in the 1870s by famed carver Lothrop Holmes, who worked as a cemetery superintendent in Massachusetts.
Decoy Market, After Decline, Tests Its Wings Meg Cox 2011
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Below each drawing I compose a cryptogram, a hybrid of pig Latin, English, and French, neatly labeling each picture in tiny calligraphic script: Binrobatus rouge for red-breasted robin, Chicadeenus chapeaunoir for the little black-capped chickadee.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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Below each drawing I compose a cryptogram, a hybrid of pig Latin, English, and French, neatly labeling each picture in tiny calligraphic script: Binrobatus rouge for red-breasted robin, Chicadeenus chapeaunoir for the little black-capped chickadee.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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The red vest fits the source of a red-breasted robin, but what part of a robin is green?
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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So the old woman sold me a magnet and a red-breasted hummingbird to hang around my neck.
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These red-breasted mergansers, drawn by Neal Anderson, are sometimes called "punk ducks."
Hunting Duck Stamps 2010
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So the old woman sold me a magnet and a red-breasted hummingbird to hang around my neck.
El colibri 2008
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So the old woman sold me a magnet and a red-breasted hummingbird to hang around my neck.
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So the old woman sold me a magnet and a red-breasted hummingbird to hang around my neck.
El colibri 2008
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So the old woman sold me a magnet and a red-breasted hummingbird to hang around my neck.
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