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1. not comparableHaving spots resembling the eyes of a bird.
2. not comparableAs if viewed from an altitude; panoramic.

   There is also one of the woodblocks used to print Jacopo de’ Barbari’s revolutionary bird’s-eye panorama of Venice and the lagoon, from 1500.

   2016 May 5, Roderick Conway Morris, “In Venice, the Power of the Press on Display”, in The New York Times

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   In the 1970s Thiebaud became increasingly interested in landscapes and cityscapes that he painted from a bird’s-eye perspective. In “Potrero Hill” a painting from the mid-1970s, he jammed freeways, hills and buildings together in a steep vertical of color and light.

   2021 December 26, Mary Rourke, “Wayne Thiebaud, prolific California painter and teacher, dies at 101”, in Los Angeles Times

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1. countableuncountableA fabric having a pattern of small circles or diamonds with a spot in each centre.
2. countableuncountableA kind of pipe tobacco in which the leaves are finely sliced laterally, including the stem, giving a bird's eye pattern to the tobacco.

   Gaudy dollwomen loll in the lighted doorways, in window embrasures, smoking birdseye cigarettes.

   1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 15: Circe]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 429

3. countableuncountableA figure found in wood, especially hard maple, resembling tiny swirling eyes disrupting the smooth grain.
4. colloquialcountableuncountableentertainmentA fermata (notation).