woodnote

noun

woodnote

noun

Etymology From wood + note.

1

Poetic A natural musical sound, like birdsong in a forest.

  • If Jonsons learned sock be on, / Or sweetest Shakespear fancies childe, / Warble his native Wood-notes wilde, ...1632, John Milton, L'Allegro:

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