mavis
See also: Mavis
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English mavys, from Anglo-Norman mauvis, from Old French mauvis (“song thrush”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmavis (plural mavises)
- (poetic) song thrush
- 1830, Tennyson Alfred Lord, “"Claribel"”, in Poems Chiefly Lyrical[1]:
- At midnight the moon cometh, / And looketh down alone; / Her song the lintwhite swelleth, / The clear voiced mavis dwelleth […]
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editLatin
editVerb
editmāvīs
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