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Definition of Amadavats
1. amadavat [n] - See also: amadavat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Amadavats
Literary usage of Amadavats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Library of Natural History: Embracing Living Animals of the by Charles John Cornish (1908)
"The group includes many familiar as cage-birds, such as the LONG-TAILED WIDOW-BIRDS,
the RED- BEAKED WAXBILLS, amadavats, JAVA SPARROW, GRASS-FINCHES, ..."
2. Things Indian: Being Discursive Notes on Various Subjects Connected with India by William Crooke (1906)
"Mrs Fanny Parkes quotes a native proverb which says that " Cocks fight for
fighting's sake, quails for food, and lals, or amadavats, for love. ..."
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