mavis
See also: Mavis
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From Middle English mavys, from Anglo-Norman mauvis, from Old French mauvis (“song thrush”).
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mavis (plural mavises)
- (poetic) song thrush
- 1830, Tennyson Alfred Lord, “"Claribel"”, in Poems Chiefly Lyrical[1]:
- At midnight the moon cometh, / And looketh down alone; / Her song the lintwhite swelleth, / The clear voiced mavis dwelleth […]
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māvīs