nightingale floor

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Noun[edit]

nightingale floor (plural nightingale floors)

  1. Synonym of uguisubari
    • 2018, Michael Ondaatje, Warlight, →ISBN, page 13:
      "It's a nightingale floor," our grandmother told us. "It warns us of thieves in the night."