fauvette

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French fauvette, diminutive of fauve (“fawn-coloured”).

Noun

fauvette (plural fauvettes)

1. (archaic) Any of a number of small songbird, such as nightingales or warblers.
   • 1853, James Rennie, Bird-architecture, page 287:

     On the other hand a young owl, which had as yet only been fed by hand, began of itself to eat by devouring a fauvette which was lodged with it.

References

• “fauvette”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

French

Etymology

From fauve +‎ -ette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fo.vɛt/

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Noun

fauvette f (plural fauvettes)

1. warbler
   • 1976, Michel Fugain et le Big Bazar, "Le printemps".

     L’hirondelle et la fauvette, c’est la forêt qui me l’a dit / L’hirondelle et la fauvette, ont déjà fait leur nid

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Derived terms

• fauvette à tête noire
• fauvette babillarde
• fauvette des jardins
• fauvette épervière
• fauvette grisette
• fauvette orphée

 

Further reading

• “fauvette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.