Lettuce-bird

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Noun
  1. 1
    A goldfinch. US, dialectal

    "‘And Len Rhodes said you looked when you danced for all the world “like a lettuce-bird a-flying.”’"

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"‘And Len Rhodes said you looked when you danced for all the world “like a lettuce-bird a-flying.”’"

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