Definition of Nightingales

1. Noun. (plural of nightingale) ¹

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Definition of Nightingales

1. nightingale [n] - See also: nightingale

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nightingales

nightgear
nightglow
nightglows
nightgown
nightgowned
nightgowns
nightguard
nighthawk
nighthawker
nighthawkers
nighthawking
nighthawks
nightie
nighties
nightingale
nightingales (current term)
nightish
nightjar
nightjars
nightless
nightlies
nightlife
nightlifer
nightlifers
nightlifes
nightlight
nightlight bulb
nightlight bulbs
nightlights
nightlike

Literary usage of Nightingales

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

1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, George Grove (1862)
"And through His words the nightingales' We kissed so close, we could not vow ... The nightingales, the nightingales. " 0 cold white moonlight of the North, ..."

2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1898)
"LARKS AND nightingales A LONE I sit at eventide: The twilight glory pales, ... We have no leas, no larks, no rooks, No swains, no nightingales, ..."

3. The Warner Library by Charles Dudley Warner, Harry Morgan Ayres, John William Cunliffe, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1917)
"FROM LUIS DE GONGORA —NOT ALL nightingales THEY are not all sweet nightingales, That fill with songs the flowery vales; But they are little silver bells, ..."

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