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fauvette

fauvette noun: any of a number of small songbird, such as nightingales or warblers.

Noun

fauvette (plural fauvettes)

  1. (archaic) Any of a number of small songbird, such as nightingales or warblers.
    • On the other hand a young owl, which had as yet only been fed by hand, began of itself to eat by devouring a fauvette which was lodged with it.1853, James Rennie, Bird-architecture, page 287

Forms of fauvette

pluralfauvettes

Origin of fauvette

Unadapted borrowing from French fauvette, diminutive of fauve (“fawn-coloured”).

Questions about fauvette

What does fauvette mean?
Fauvette means any of a number of small songbird, such as nightingales or warblers.
What part of speech is fauvette?
Fauvette is a noun.
What is the plural of fauvette?
The plural of fauvette is fauvettes.

Words near fauvette in the dictionary

  1. fautrix
  2. fauve
  3. Fauver
  4. Fauvers
  5. fauves
  6. fauvette
  7. fauvettes
  8. fauvism
  9. fauvist
  10. fauvistic
  11. fauvists

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