mavis

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the song thrush; chiefly literary or Scottish

   At dawn a mavis sang from the highest branch of the birch.

From Middle English mavys, borrowed through Anglo-Norman mauvis from Old French. Once an ordinary name for the song thrush, mavis now survives mainly in Scottish usage and literary descriptions of the bird's clear song.

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