mavis

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From Middle English mavys, from Anglo-Norman mauvis, from Old French mauvis (“song thrush”).

Miss Mavis hasn't been there to-day.' — A London Life, and Other Tales, Henry James
"Miss Mavis, I have brought you some violets," he said. — A Sheaf of Corn, Mary E. Mann
He never has those fine intervals of lunacy into which his cousins, the catbird and the mavis, are apt to fall. — The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886, Ontario. Department of Education

song thrush, throstle, Turdus philomelos

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