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bun·ting1
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| 1. | a coarse, open fabric of worsted or cotton for flags, signals, etc. |
| 2. | patriotic and festive decorations made from such cloth, or from paper, usually in the form of draperies, wide streamers, etc., in the colors of the national flag. |
| 3. | flags, esp. a vessel's flags, collectively. |
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bun·ting2
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| any of several small, chiefly seed-eating birds of the genera Emberiza, Passerina, and Plectrophenax. |
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| bunt 1
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v. bunt·ed, bunt·ing, bunts v. tr.
v. intr.
n.
[Dialectal, to push, strike.] bunt'er n. |
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| bunt·ing 1
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n.
[Perhaps from German bunt, colored.] |
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| bunt·ing 2
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n. Any of various birds of the family Fringillidae, having short, cone-shaped bills and brownish or grayish plumage. [Middle English.] |
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| bunt·ing 3
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n. A snug-fitting, hooded sleeping bag of heavy material for infants. [Perhaps from Scots buntin, plump, short.] |
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bunting (1)
"flag material," 1742, perhaps from M.E. bonting gerundive of bonten "to sift," because cloth was used for sifting grain, via O.Fr. from V.L. *bonitare "to make good."
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bunting (2)
"type of lark-like bird," c.1300, bountyng, maybe from buntin "plump" (cf. baby bunting, also Scots buntin "short and thick;" Welsh bontin "rump," and bontinog "big-assed"), or a double dim. of Fr. bon.
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| bunting | |
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| 1. | a loosely woven fabric used for flags, etc. |
| 2. | any of numerous seed-eating songbirds of Europe or North America |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
bunting [ˈbantiŋ] noun
flags for use in celebrations
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Bunting
Bun"ting\, n. [Scot. buntlin, corn-buntlin, OE. bunting, buntyle; of unknown origin.] (Zo["o]l.) A bird of the genus Emberiza, or of an allied genus, related to the finches and sparrows (family Fringillid[ae]). Note: Among European species are the common or corn bunting (Emberiza miliaria); the ortolan (E. hortulana); the cirl (E. cirlus); and the black-headed (Granitivora melanocephala). American species are the bay-winged or grass (Po["o]c[ae]tes or Po[oe]cetes gramineus); the black-throated (Spiza Americana); the towhee bunting or chewink (Pipilo); the snow bunting (Plectrophanax nivalis); the rice bunting or bobolink, and others. See Ortolan, Chewick, Snow bunting, Lark bunting.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Bunting
Bun"ting\, Buntine \Bun"tine\, n. [Prov. E. bunting sifting flour, OE. bonten to sift, hence prob. the material used for that purpose.] A thin woolen stuff, used chiefly for flags, colors, and ships' signals.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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