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- noun Alternative spelling of
yellowbird .
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Examples
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The dresses shown in that link include a Duro, the pink jellybean dress, the blogiversary dress, the stunt Valentine's Dress, and the yellow-bird dress.
May 2008 2008
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I tihnk it would look nice as trim on the yellow-bird dress.
!!! - A Dress A Day 2008
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The dresses shown in that link include a Duro, the pink jellybean dress, the blogiversary dress, the stunt Valentine's Dress, and the yellow-bird dress.
A Rejoinder and Statement of Principles - A Dress A Day 2008
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And in unrelated news, if you want to see me wearing the yellow-bird dress, there's a picture up here.
October 2007 2007
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And in unrelated news, if you want to see me wearing the yellow-bird dress, there's a picture up here.
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By and by one eye opened; and, peeping out, she saw her mistress walking across the room with a dear little yellow-bird in her hand, which she placed on a plant that stood on the top shelf of the plant-stand.
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These nests are so durable, that a yellow-bird has been known to place her own over an old one of a previous year, made by this bird; and field-mice, probably the jumping-mice, are said frequently to take possession of them after the vireo and its brood are gone.
Rural Hours 1887
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Then Ann Putnam, that other child of twelve, joined in; "There flies the yellow-bird to the minister's hat, hanging on the pin in the pulpit."
Dulcibel A Tale of Old Salem Henry Peterson 1882
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But he braced himself up in spite of Ann and the demoniacal yellow-bird, and finished the service.
Sabbath in Puritan New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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Three Bad Bears, and honey-cakes and candy apples, and a little yellow-bird in a cage, and what not?
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