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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : nahyt-n-geyl, nahy-ting- |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈnaɪt nˌgeɪl, ˈnaɪ tɪŋ- |
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Définition of nightingales
Origin :- Old English næctigalæ, nihtegale, compound formed in Proto-Germanic (cf. Dutch nachtegaal, German Nachtigall) from *nakht- "night" (see night) + *galon "to sing," related to Old English giellan "yell" (see yell). With parasitic -n- that appeared mid-13c. Dutch nightingale "frog" is attested from 1769. In Japanese, "nightingale floor" is said to be the term for boards that creak when you walk on them.
- French rossignol (Old French lousseignol) is, with Spanish ruiseñor, Portuguese rouxinol, Italian rosignuolo, from Vulgar Latin *rosciniola, dissimilated from Latin lusciniola "nightingale," diminutive of luscinia "nightingale."
- As in singer : noun person who can carry a tune
- Right-o, for you and Miss Lindsey, but what about nightingales' tongues for my author?
- Extract from : « Blue-grass and Broadway » by Maria Thompson Daviess
- And Jordan, those sweet banks of thine, With woods so full of nightingales.
- Extract from : « Byeways in Palestine » by James Finn
- The swallows, nightingales, and cuckoos were a fortnight after their usual time.
- Extract from : « Honor O'callaghan » by Mary Russell Mitford
- We will sing it, Jimmy, as no nightingales could ever sing it.
- Extract from : « The Green Carnation » by Robert Smythe Hichens
- Nightingales here and there, new-comers, tune their timid April song.
- Extract from : « New Italian sketches » by John Addington Symonds
- Songs of cuckoos and nightingales echoed from the copses on the hill-sides.
- Extract from : « New Italian sketches » by John Addington Symonds
- I hear the nightingales' sweet song In answer to the song of Sophocles!
- Extract from : « Life Immovable » by Kostes Palamas
- Nightingales are not numerous in the Forest, although they abound in the neighbourhood.
- Extract from : « The Forest of Dean » by H. G. Nicholls
- It has as little of the nightingales rich melancholy as of the larks delirium.
- Extract from : « Victorian Songs » by Various
- We heard of, but not from, the nightingales in the sacred precincts of the Alhambra.
- Extract from : « Due West » by Maturin Murray Ballou
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