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English
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French fauvette, diminutive of fauve (“fawn-coloured”).
Noun
fauvette (plural fauvettes)
- (archaic) Any of a number of small songbird, such as nightingales or warblers.
1853, James Rennie, Bird-architecture, page 287:On the other hand a young owl, which had as yet only been fed by hand, began of itself to eat by devouring a fauvette which was lodged with it.
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French
Etymology
From fauve + -ette.
Pronunciation
Noun
fauvette f (plural fauvettes)
- warbler
- 1976, Michel Fugain et le Big Bazar, "Le printemps".
L’hirondelle et la fauvette, c’est la forêt qui me l’a dit / L’hirondelle et la fauvette, ont déjà fait leur nid- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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