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English
Noun
purple sandpiper (plural purple sandpipers)
- A type of sandpiper, Calidris maritima.
2011, Sjón, translated by Victoria Cribb, From the Mouth of a Whale, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 11:Importunate with his own kind, garrulous with others…So might one describe the purple sandpiper and so men describe me…
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