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Definition of Pigeonwing
1. n. A wing of a pigeon, or a wing like it.
Definition of Pigeonwing
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pigeonwing
Literary usage of Pigeonwing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cooper's Works by James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant (1855)
"all good — wish pigeonwing Christian — den'member so'ger at garrison — no eat,
no sleep, ... dey come to meet ole chief, no find him ; but find pigeonwing ..."
2. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1903)
"Then, catching her ragged skirts in either hand, she bowed low to her image, and,
after cutting a formal and elaborate pigeonwing, settled down to a shuffle ..."
3. Modern Eloquence by Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh (1900)
""How is that?" " Well, I feel so jolly because I have just been to the dentist
and he was out." And the happy man cut a pigeonwing on the sidewalk. ..."
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