pinionists
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Etymology edit
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pinionists pl (plural only)
- (poetic, nonce word) winged creatures
- 1613, William Browne, Britannia's Pastorals:
- He sung the outrage of the lazy drone
Upon the lab'ring bee, in strains so rare,
That all the flitting pinionists of air
Attentive sat, and in their kinds did long
To learn some note from his well-timed song.