Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The male mistlethrush.
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Examples
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I have a proud stomach o 'these days; I doubt pastry from Languedoc would turn me sour; and liking monks little enough as it is, your throstle-cock of Montauban might cause me to blaspheme.
The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay Maurice Hewlett 1892
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CHAUCER says: The throstle-cock sings so sweet a tone that Tubal himself, the first musican, could not equal it.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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