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Brown thrush   /braʊn θrəʃ/   Listen
Brown thrush

noun
1.
Common large songbird of eastern United States having reddish-brown plumage.  Synonyms: brown thrasher, Toxostoma rufums.






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"Brown thrush" Quotes from Famous Books



... for the reason that she was too great, too elusive in spirit, for any snapshot artist to attempt her. She never looked twice the same. In feature she was commonplace, her form lacked the classic touch, and her raiment was as plain as the plumage of a brown thrush in an autumn hedgerow. She was as homely as George Eliot, Mary Wollstonecraft, Rosa Bonheur, George Sand, or Madame De Stael. No two of the women named looked alike, but I once saw a composite photograph of their portraits and the picture sent no thrills along my keel. ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 - Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians • Elbert Hubbard



Words linked to "Brown thrush" :   mocking thrush, brown thrasher, Toxostoma rufums, thrasher



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