canvasback

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English

Aythya valisineria

Etymology

From canvas +‎ back.

Noun

canvasback (plural canvasbacks)

  1. A North American wild duck, Aythya valisineria, popular as a game bird.
    • 1857 The Private Correspondence of Daniel Webster
      Yesterday, I received a great present from Mr. Webster, from Washington; a large basket of canvasback ducks and a large turkey.
    • 1904, Alfred Henry Lewis, “How a President is Bred”, in The President: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: A S Barnes and Company, →OCLC, page 24:
      The native State of Patrick Henry Hanway was a moss-grown member of the republic and had been one of the original thirteen. It possessed with other impedimenta a moss-grown aristocracy that borrowed money, devoured canvasbacks, drank burgundy, wore spotless tow in summer, clung to the duello, and talked of days of greatness which had been before the war.

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