egret

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a long-legged wading bird in the heron family, often white and sometimes bearing long breeding plumes

   An egret stood motionless in the shallows before striking at a fish.

From Middle English egret, via Anglo-French from Old Occitan aigreta, a diminutive related to aigron 'heron'. The word is ultimately of Germanic origin; compare Old High German heigaro 'heron'. Aigrette is a doublet.

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