fauvette

F4A1U1V4E1T1T1E1

noun

Any of a number of small songbird, such as nightingales or warblers.

OriginFrench fauvette →
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Meanings

nounfauvette (plural fauvettes)

plural fauvettes

  1. archaicAny of a number of small songbird, such as nightingales or warblers.

    On the other hand a young owl, which had as yet only been fed by hand, began of itself to eat by devouring a fauvette which was lodged with it.

    1853, James Rennie, Bird-architecture, page 287

Origin

  1. Frenchfauvette
  2. Englishfauvette

Unadapted borrowing from French fauvette, diminutive of fauve (“fawn-coloured”).

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APA

fauvette. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fauvette

MLA

“fauvette.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fauvette. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fauvette,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fauvette.

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