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  • noun Plural form of Wyandotte.

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Examples

  • Peculiar we then thought it, though we learned afterward that poultry-farming was not uncommon on the flat roofs of Seville, and there is now no telling how we might have prospered if we had taken those rooms and stocked our roof with Plymouth Rocks and Wyandottes.

    Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

  • They had numbers of chickens, black Leghorns and white Leghorns, Plymouths and Wyandottes; also some ducks; also two heifers in the fields.

    The Fox 2003

  • There was corn for the White Wyandottes and Mr. Stuckup the Turkey, and some, too, for the Foolish White Geese; and meal for the Pretty

    Half-Past Seven Stories Robert Gordon Anderson

  • Most of my hens do remember me in this substantial way, and the White Wyandottes are in great favor with the Headman.

    The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm John Williams Streeter

  • The White Wyandottes were jumping all over the table, and the Pretty

    Half-Past Seven Stories Robert Gordon Anderson

  • Marmaduke put only one or two kernels of corn from his first pocket, in the plates for the White Wyandottes, to hold them there until the rest of the guests could come.

    Half-Past Seven Stories Robert Gordon Anderson

  • Even Mother Carey's chickens gave me no pleasure, for they reminded me of a far better brood at home, and I cheerfully thanked the noble Wyandottes who were working every third day so that I could have a trip to Europe.

    The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm John Williams Streeter

  • Wyandottes, for there's mighty little difference between them as all-around hens.

    The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm John Williams Streeter

  • Wyandottes; to have them both the same year was the marvel.

    The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm John Williams Streeter

  • Wyandottes in the country to send me five hundred eggs apiece February

    The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm John Williams Streeter

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