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plural waxwings
Any of several songbirds of the genus Bombycilla, having crested heads, and red tips to the wings. quotations examples
I was the shadow of the waxwing slainBy the false azure in the windowpane;I was the smudge of ashen fluff—and ILived on, flew on, in the reflected sky.
1962, Charles Kinbote [pseudonym; Vladimir Nabokov], Pale Fire, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, published November 1985