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
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A surname.
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