OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 3685

nightingale

/ˈnaɪtɪŋɡeɪl/
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A Eurasian and African songbird, Luscinia megarhynchos, family Muscicapidae, famed for its beautiful singing at night; a common nightingale.
And David's Lips are lock't; but in divine High piping Péhlevi, with "Wine! Wine! Wine! Red Wine!" — the Nightingale cries to the Rose That yellow Cheek of her's to'incarnadine.
The oaks around were the home of a tribe of nightingales.
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