Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A little or petty king; a royalet.
- noun In ornithology, a kinglet or goldcrest; a small bird of the genus Regulus.
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I have seen this linked all over and I thank roitelet for sharing it with me.
Keith Olbermann channels Edward R. Murrow cavalaxis 2006
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I have seen this linked all over and I thank roitelet for sharing it with me.
Archive 2006-09-01 cavalaxis 2006
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[238] The Germans still call it _Zaunkönig_ and the French _roitelet_, both names thus containing the idea of _king_.
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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It is this little bird which is alluded to in Lafontaine's charming fable of the Oak and the Reed; this is the tiny roitelet which the Oak pronounces a heavy burden for the Reed:
Rural Hours 1887
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Among the birds enumerated by Kuhn and others as representing the storm-cloud are likewise the wren or "kinglet" (French roitelet); the owl, sacred to Athene; the cuckoo, stork, and sparrow; and the red-breasted robin, whose name Robert was originally an epithet of the lightning-god Thor.
Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology 1872
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f (4) The Germans still call it 'Zaunkonig' and the French 'roitelet,' both names thus containing the idea of 'king.'
The Birds 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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