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agami

Trumpeter \Trump"et*er\, n.

  1. One who sounds a trumpet.

  2. One who proclaims, publishes, or denounces.

    These men are good trumpeters.
    --Bacon.

  3. (Zo["o]l.)

    1. Any one of several species of long-legged South American birds of the genus Psophia, especially Psophia crepitans, which is abundant, and often domesticated and kept with other poultry by the natives. They are allied to the cranes. So called from their loud cry. Called also agami, and yakamik.

    2. A variety of the domestic pigeon.

    3. An American swan ( Olor buccinator) which has a very loud note.

  4. (Zo["o]l.) A large edible fish ( Latris hecateia) of the family Cirrhitid[ae], native of Tasmania and New Zealand. It sometimes weighs as much as fifty or sixty pounds, and is highly esteemed as a food fish.

Wiktionary
agami

n. (context zoology English) A South American bird, ''Psophia crepitans'', allied to the cranes, and easily domesticated.

Wikipedia
Agami

Agami ( , mostly shortened to , ;, ) is a city in the Alexandria Governorate of Egypt. Situated 20 km west of Alexandria, the town is a popular destination for both local Alexandrians and tourists in Giza and Cairo. Agami literally means in Arabic "foreigner"; older uses of the term were reserved for descriptions of anyone who is non- Arab.

Usage examples of "agami".

Beautiful Agami woodwork, larken-built, like all the best of the Agami: each panel was made of thousands of pieces of wood, some as large as a thumbnail, some as small as a splinter, each one invisibly glued into place, fitted together like the pieces of a puzzle.

Bridge, no matter how wealthy the Agami lords they are bound to might be.

Like mine, it was Agami larken woodwork, each side made of hundreds of smaller pieces carefully fit together, but this was not nearly as nice a piece of work as mine.

Bridge was to the Agami lords, it was likely more plain than Minch was used to.

The combination of the large armies of Lord Orazhi, the devious cleverness of Lord Toshtai, and the field marshallship of Dun Lidjun was too much of a threat for Patrice and the Agami lords to stand still for.

Lord Orazhi, the devious cleverness of Lord Toshtai, and the field marshallship of Dun Lidjun was too much of a threat for Patrice and the Agami lords to stand still for.