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Definition of Bird of passage

1. Noun. Someone who leads a wandering unsettled life.

Definition of Bird of passage

1. Noun. A migratory bird, especially a passage migrant. ¹

2. Noun. (figuratively) Someone passing through; an itinerant. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bird Of Passage

Literary usage of Bird of passage

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Immigration and Labor: The Economic Aspects of European Immigration to the by Isaac Aaronovich Hourwich (1922)
"Why the "bird of passage" should have been the subject of popular censure is from an economic point of view inconceivable. So long as there are variations ..."

2. A Handy Book of Curious Information: Comprising Strange Happenings in the by William Shepard Walsh (1913)
"It is introduced to us as a bird of passage in Exodus, xvi. 13. The children of Israel wandering in the wilderness murmured at the scarcity of provisions ..."

3. Selected Articles on Immigration by Mary Katharine Reely (1915)
"American Journal of Sociology. 18: 391-7. November, 1912 Bird of Passage. WB Bailey By the term "bird of passage," as used in this article, ..."

4. The Life and Letters of Alexander Wilson by Alexander Wilson, Clark Hunter (1983)
"CHAPTER I Childhood: "A Bird of Passage" WHEN the parliaments of Scotland and England were united in 1707 it was with very great misgivings, ..."

5. Life and Letters of Alexander Wilson by Alexander Wilson, Clark HUNTER (1983)
"CHAPTER I Childhood: "A Bird of Passage' WHEN the parliaments of Scotland and England were united in 1707 it was with very great misgivings, ..."

6. Golden Poems by British and American Authors by Francis Fisher Browne (1906)
"bird of passage As THE day's last light is dying, As the night's first breeze is sighing, I send you, love, like a messenger-dove, my thought through the ..."

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