fauvette

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English

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from French fauvette, diminutive of fauve (fawn-coloured).

Noun

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fauvette (plural fauvettes)

  1. (archaic) Any of a number of small songbird, such as nightingales or warblers.
    • 1853, James Rennie, Bird-architecture, page 287:
      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.

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French

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Etymology

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From fauve +‎ -ette.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /fo.vɛt/
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Noun

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fauvette f (plural fauvettes)

  1. warbler
    • 1976, Michel Fugain et le Big Bazar, "Le printemps".
      L’hirondelle et la fauvette, c’est la forêt qui me l’a dit / L’hirondelle et la fauvette, ont déjà fait leur nid
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