lintwhite
English
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Etymology
From Middle English lynkwhytte, lyngwhitte (also as Middle English lindetvigle), from Old English līnetwige, līnetwigle (“linnet”).
Noun
lintwhite (plural lintwhites)
- (archaic) A linnet.
- 1785, Robert Burns, Epistle To William Simson Schoolmaster, Ochiltree::
- O sweet are Coila's haughs an' woods, / When lintwhites chant amang the buds,
- 1830, Tennyson Alfred Lord, Claribel:
- At midnight the moon cometh, / And looketh down alone; / Her song the lintwhite swelleth […]