With allusion to the plainness of the dress traditionally worn by Quakers. Any of various birds with partly or wholly grey or brown plumage; spec.…
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释义 | the world > animals > birds > order Procellariiformes > [noun] > family Diomedeidae (albatross) > diomedea fusca (sooty albatross) (5) Quaker1776 With allusion to the plainness of the dress traditionally worn by Quakers. Any of various birds with partly or wholly grey or brown plumage; spec.… sooty albatross1777 stinkard1850 = stinker, n. 5, stink-pot, n. 3. stink-pot1865 A sailor's name for a petrel. Cf. stinker, n. 5. Also, in South Africa, applied to the Sooty Albatross, Phœbetria fuliginosa, and the Cape hen, Maj… stinker1896 A sailor's name for the giant fulmar (Ossifraga gigantea) and other ill-smelling petrels. |
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