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kingfisher

kingfi sher

  • n  nonpasserine large-headed bird with a short tail and long sharp bill; usually crested and bright-colored; feed mostly on fish

  • He lists Cambodia's trade goods (kingfisher feathers, rosewood and beeswax in return for Chinese pewter, celadon and combs), stripping its flora and fauna of the romance of place .
  • Through the carved window frame I can see swallows swooping over the lillies, little black ducks diving in the shallows and a kingfisher preening itself on the verandah.
  • A dark young man, attired in pajamas of kingfisher-blue silk, smoking, with mannered nonchalance, a brown cigaret, was reclining among the pillows of a luxurious seabed.
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