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Definition of Rare bird
1. Noun. A rare or unique person.
Definition of Rare bird
1. Noun. An unusual or exceptional person or thing; a ''rara avis''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rare Bird
Literary usage of Rare bird
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1894)
"A rare bird. Two boys, finding themselves in possession of a half-holiday, resolved
to devote it to a gunning expedition, and so, borrowing a rusty old ..."
2. New Guinea: What I Did and what I Saw by Luigi Maria D'Albertis (1880)
"... head—"Baratu"—No bags—Drams—Fighting array—Flight and the bag and baggage
system in action—A rare bird—Opposite Kiwai Island—A strange building, ..."
3. The Musical World (1867)
"I would not wish collectors wholly to give up collecting ; but I would wish them
not to kill every rare bird they come across, whether they have it already ..."
4. Michigan Bird Life: A List of All the Bird Species Known to Occur in the by Walter Bradford Barrows (1912)
"The Trumpeter Swan is a decidedly rare bird in Michigan; ... Kumlien and Hollister
say "Surely a very rare bird in Wisconsin at the present day, ..."
5. The Large and Small Game of Bengal and the North-western Provinces of India by John Henry Baldwin (1876)
"The thickly-toothed bill of the merganser enables it to seize its prey, small
fish, with facility. THIS is a rare bird in Bengal. I have only shot it twice; ..."
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