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fauvettes

fauvettes is the plural of fauvette.

Meaning of fauvette

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

Questions about fauvettes

What is fauvettes the plural of?
Fauvettes is the plural of fauvette.

Words near fauvettes in the dictionary

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

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