waxwing🔊

Any of several songbirds of the genus Bombycilla, having crested heads, and red tips to the wings.

💬 Quotations

I was the shadow of the waxwing slain / By the false azure in the windowpane; / I was the smudge of ashen fluff—and I / Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky.

Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire (1962)

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