Lexicographical Neighbors of Fauvettes
Literary usage of Fauvettes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"The remaining species have the common name of fauvettes; they are, nearly all,
good singers, lively and gay in their manners, constantly flitting about in ..."
2. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1900)
"This, however, was not Mademoiselle fauvettes method. She accompanied people who
did not know their own minds to dressmakers and milliners; she taught them ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1831)
"On the 27th of June he put a young cuckoo, already nine inches long, in an open
cage with three young fauvettes, which were scarcely fledged, and could not ..."
4. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"A man who lives by his wits and calls himself a gentleman. "Dénicheur de fauvettes,
chevalier 4e l'ordre de l'industrie, qui va chercher quelque bon nid, ..."
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