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macaw
Part of speech: NounA large and gaily colored parrot.
Usage examples "macaw":- It takes considerable tact, I can assure you, to convince Mrs 'Arris, or whatever is the name of your intended landlady, that your Newfoundland is so clean that you never can see even a hair on the carpet; that your Pomeranian is an angel in canine form; that your Persian cat wouldn't steal, if surrounded even by the most tempting viands; that your macaw doesn't scream loud enough to give all the terrace " an 'eadache;" and that your white rats never escape and run all over the house. - "The Domestic Cat", Gordon Stables.
- She was such fun; she was so fat, and such a fool, and said such delicious things, and dressed herself so like a macaw. - "Checkmate", Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu.
- His tall, gaunt, though slender figure, his curly light hair and large aquiline nose, which always reminded me of a macaw; his thin face flushed with consumption, his little cough, which seemed to shake him to pieces, and which he said " was wearing him out," at which we all laughed irresistibly, and then felt ashamed of ourselves, as well we might; but he himself seemed to enjoy his cough. - "Stories of Authors, British and American", Edwin Watts Chubb.