firebird
fahy er burd
- n the male is bright red with black wings and tail
- n eastern subspecies of northern oriole
- n tropical American flycatcher found as far north as southern Texas and Arizona; adult male has bright scarlet and black plumage
- The image of the firebird is one of the best known in ballet: a ballerina in a fantastical costume of glitter and feathers soaring through space in split leaps.
- The Kalmuck peasant, who yesterday guided a primitive plough hitched to a camel, is picked up as by zhar ptitsa, the legendary firebird, and deposited for some revolutionary .
- While he crouches and flaps on the podium like some grotesque little firebird about to take wing, his pianist son, Soulima, will be the soloist.