lintwhite
nounEtymology Inherited from Middle English lynkwhytte, lyngwhitte (also as Middle English lindetvigle), from Old English līnetwiġe, līnetwiġle (“linnet”).
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Archaic A linnet.
- The mavis, merle, and Progne proud, The lintwhite lark, and laverock loud,1597, Alexander Montgomery, The Cherrie and the Slae:
- O sweet are Coila's haughs an' woods, / When lintwhites chant amang the buds,1785, Robert Burns, Epistle To William Simson Schoolmaster, Ochiltree::
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- At midnight the moon cometh, / And looketh down alone; / Her song the lintwhite swelleth, / The clear voiced mavis dwelleth […]1830, Tennyson Alfred Lord, “"Claribel"”, in Poems Chiefly Lyrical: