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Значения термина pouter pigeon на английском

One of a breed of pigeon that enlarge their crop until their breast is puffed out.

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        Examples for "pouter"
        1
        The bulging chest often indicates no more than pouter-pigeon bluff temporarily put on.
        Certain Success
        2
        He swelled up like a pouter pigeon; and shook his fist at the door.
        The Scotch Twins
        3
        The effect was frighteningly grotesque, like a scarlet pouter pigeon.
        Gather, Darkness!
        4
        Taken absolutely, instead of comparatively, immaturity designates a positive force or ability,-thepouter to grow.
        Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Ed...
        5
        In a pouter, the furcula had not been lengthened proportionally with the increased length of the body.
        The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.
        Использование термина pouter pigeon на английском
        1
        He swelled up like a pouter pigeon; and shook his fist at the door.
        The Scotch Twins
        2
        The effect was frighteningly grotesque, like a scarlet pouter pigeon.
        Gather, Darkness!
        3
        There are styles demanding that beginning at the neck you should curve out, like a pouter pigeon.
        Idle Ideas in 1905
        4
        He likes to be worshiped, and he's positively puffed up with pride like a pouter pigeon because he's going to marry Doris.
        Glory of Youth
        5
        Swithin Forsyte, tall, square, and broad, with a chest like a pouter pigeon's in its plumage of bright waistcoats, came strutting towards them.
        The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. / The Man Of Property
        6
        But why-why ,seeingthat in Tommy they admire it, do they wait for me with imitations of cock-a-doodle-do ,strutbeside me mimicking a pouter pigeon?
        Paul Kelver
        7
        Farmer Green calls them pouter pigeons.
        Seven O'Clock Stories
        8
        Those old fellows puffed up like pouter pigeons, and giggled and primped like a lot of school girls!
        The Lady of the Decoration
        9
        "About three-fourweeks," replied the pouter pigeon, with calm unconcern; "ever since Mr. Krauss went to Singapore."
        The Road to Mandalay: A Tale of Burma
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