songbird

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  • Critics agree that the songbird is now ready for a comeback following a string of bad publicity over the years, both on her personal and professional life.
  • Main St. Jenkins was a deluded songbird, a rich matron self-financing her operatic dreams late in life, hiring a concert pianist, and designing her own florid costumes.
  • She reemerged from the squalor as a recording artist in 1979, her voice a gruff approximation of her once songbird-pretty tonalities. —  PopMatters
  • (I had trouble finding it in the database this morning, but I remember it well) of some kind of songbird (a sparrow of some kind?). —  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
  • Ruddies take on a complete plumage change, much like a songbird, and are the only waterfowl to do so.
 

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