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Anna Karenina vocabulary
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peewit
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synonyms: lapwing ???
tags: [avian] [rare]
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Definition:Can refer to one of several birds, but in Europe normally refers to the lapwing which is the wading bird pictured below.
image: Geetanjalidhar under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.sound file: by YleArkisto under the Attribution License (original truncated and converted to reduce (43 MB) file size)
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"Peewit," said a peewit, very remote.
"Peewit, indeed!" said Mr. Thomas Marvel. "This ain't no time for foolery."
H. G. Wells. The Invisible Man (1897)
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TROCHILUS No, but when my master was turned into a peewit, he begged me to become a bird too, to follow and to serve him.
EUELPIDES Does a bird need a servant, then?
Aristophanes. The Birds.
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Larks trilled unseen above the velvety green fields and the ice-covered stubble-land; peewits wailed over the low lands and marshes flooded by the pools; cranes and wild geese flew high across the sky uttering their spring calls.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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