Fawnling

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A small, young, or baby fawn.

    "Slay not that my musk-deer fawnling, Hunter! Prithee, have thou shame Of her night-black eye nor bind her With thy lasso long and strait."

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"Slay not that my musk-deer fawnling, Hunter! Prithee, have thou shame Of her night-black eye nor bind her With thy lasso long and strait."

Etymology

From fawn + -ling.

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