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English
Adjective
bird's-eye (not comparable)
- Having spots resembling the eyes of a bird.
- As if viewed from an altitude; panoramic.
2016 May 5, Roderick Conway Morris, “In Venice, the Power of the Press on Display”, in The New York Times:There is also one of the woodblocks used to print Jacopo de’ Barbari’s revolutionary bird’s-eye panorama of Venice and the lagoon, from 1500.
2021 December 26, Mary Rourke, “Wayne Thiebaud, prolific California painter and teacher, dies at 101”, in Los Angeles Times:In the 1970s Thiebaud became increasingly interested in landscapes and cityscapes that he painted from a bird’s-eye perspective. In “Potrero Hill” a painting from the mid-1970s, he jammed freeways, hills and buildings together in a steep vertical of color and light.
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Noun
bird's-eye (countable and uncountable, plural bird's-eyes)
- A fabric having a pattern of small circles or diamonds with a spot in each centre.
- A kind of tobacco.
- A figure found in wood, especially hard maple, resembling tiny swirling eyes disrupting the smooth grain.
- (music, colloquial) A fermata (notation).
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