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Definition of Rainbirds
1. rainbird [n] - See also: rainbird
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rainbirds
Literary usage of Rainbirds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Kings County, Nova Scotia, Heart of the Acadian Land, Giving by Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton (1910)
"Grand Pr6 dreams of your coming home,— Dreams while the rainbirds all night
through, Far in the uplands calling to win yon Tease the brown dusk on the ..."
2. Low Tide on Grand Pré and Ballads of Lost Haven: Two Volumes in One by Bliss Carman (1897)
"... Dreams while the rainbirds all night through, Far in the uplands calling to
win you, Tease the brown dusk on the marshes wide; And never the burning ..."
3. A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley (1901)
"Doubtless an imitative corruption as found in co. Norfolk, the habitat of the
rainbirds. I have no doubt in my own mind as to the truth of this derivation. ..."
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