waxwing
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waxwing (plural waxwings)
- Any of several songbirds of the genus Bombycilla, having crested heads, and red tips to the wings.
- 1962, Charles Kinbote [pseudonym; Vladimir Nabokov], Pale Fire, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, published November 1985, →ISBN:
- I was the shadow of the waxwing slain
By the false azure in the windowpane;
I was the smudge of ashen fluff—and I
Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky.
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songbird of genus Bombycilla
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