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blue crane
noun
- the great blue heron.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of blue crane1
An Americanism dating back to 1775–85
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Example Sentences
Another has a blue crane, belonging to the order Grus cinerea, standing erect on its stilts, showing fight.
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It is described as resembling a blue crane, and may possibly have been the Floridus cerulea, or little blue heron.
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We ate some lunch, and I took out my gun and went for a stroll; I shot a large blue crane, and saw some ducks.
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Among the game-birds may be included the blue crane, which flies in bands of from ten to twenty, high in the air.
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He wore a headdress of monkey skins, above which waved a tuft of plumes from the tail of the blue crane.
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