nightingale

UK /ˈnaɪtɪŋɡeɪl/ US /ˈnaɪtɪŋɡeɪl/
noun 2name 1

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noun

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A Eurasian and African songbird, Luscinia megarhynchos, family Muscicapidae, famed for its beautiful singing at night; a common nightingale.

Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet neere day: / It was the Nightingale, and not the Larke, / That pier'ſt the fearefull hollow of thine eare

Some admired the external beauties of the objects they beheld, like the nightingale in love with the roſe.

noun

1

A kind of flannel scarf with sleeves, formerly worn by invalids when sitting up in bed.

name

1

A surname.

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