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Chough   Listen
Chough

noun
1.
A European corvine bird of small or medium size with red legs and glossy black plumage.






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"Chough" Quotes from Famous Books



... Wyatt's plan Rushed may a howling Irishman; Loud clattered many a porter-can, And many a ragamuffin clan, With trowel and with hod. Drury revives! her rounded pate Is blue, is heavenly blue with slate; She "wings the midway air," elate, As magpie, crow, or chough; White paint her modish visage smears, Yellow and pointed are her ears. No pendant portico appears Dangling beneath, for Whitbread's shears Have cut the bauble off. Yes, she exalts her stately head; And, but that solid bulk outspread, Opposed you on your onward tread, And posts ...
— The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton



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