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bunting

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bunting is a form of animal behavior , often found in cats , in which the animal butts or rubs their head against other things, including people. It is generally considered to be a form of territorial scent-marking behavior, where the cat rubs the scent ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN reed ▪ Females look a bit like our female reed buntings , having a streaked appearance all over. ▪ A pair of black-headed, white collared reed buntings preened on bracken fronds, their white-edged tails constantly flickering. ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
lark-like bird, c.1300, bountyng , of unknown origin. Perhaps from buntin "plump" (compare baby bunting , also Scots buntin "short and thick;" Welsh bontin "rump," and bontinog "big-assed"), or a double diminutive of French bon . Or it might be named in ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a loosely woven fabric used for flags, etc. any of numerous seed-eating songbirds of Europe or North America

Usage examples of bunting.

This air is enhanced by the presence of five aspidistras, placed in a row on the top of the bunting, which has been stretched across the top, over the opening and the turned-back lid, tightly fixed to the edges with drawing pins, and allowed to fall in artistic festoons down the sides and in a sort of valance-like effect across the front.

When the chauffeur had gone, Georgie re-pinned the bunting over the open top of the piano, replaced the aspidistras and decamped.

It was a funny, rather smelly little place, and she hurried as much as she could, the more so that the foreigner who served her insisted on telling her some of the strange, peculiar details of this Avenger murder which had taken place forty-eight hours before, and in which Bunting took such a morbid interest.

When Bunting began to ask Joe Chandler about the last of those awful Avenger murders, she even listened with a certain languid interest to all he had to say.

Bunting always visioned The Avenger as a black shadow in the centre a bright blinding light--but the shadow had no form or definite substance.

Bunting now remembered, had given a most circumstantial account of what The Avenger looked like, for he, it was supposed, had actually brushed by her as he passed.

Bunting thought he ought to have been to occupy so important a position on so important a day--gave a little history, as it were, of the terrible and mysterious Avenger crimes.

Bunting realised that this was the woman who claimed to have seen The Avenger from her bedroom window.

Bunting was now mortally afraid of this discussion concerning The Avenger and his doings, they heard Mrs.

Early in their coaching careers, Williams and Bunting had been colleagues at Rowan University, a Division III school in New Jersey.

They had missed the spectacular breeding colonies of the spring when the cliffs were white with nesting guillemots and razorbills and the puffin burrows honeycombed the turf, but there were other visitors now: the migrant goldcrests and fieldfares and buntings -and the seals, hundreds of them, returning to have their pups.

The owlet was starving, for there was only the bunting, when there should have been dozens of lemmings.

She picked up the bunting and owlet, regretting that she had found a provider only to lose him again.

The canvas was tattered and dirty, the bunting faded and cheap, the pitchmen sleazy, the milling students bestial.

Betsy and Ginger had accompanied Louis on the stump, Ginger sat on the edge of Grange Hall st agings swinging her attractive legs and shredding the red, white, and blue bunting with her three-inch heels, all the while complaining of the rigors of political wifehood and wondering whether she was going to end up with her own ritzy rehab clinic someday, just like Betty Ford.