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单词 baltimore
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Baltimoren.

/ˈbɔːltɪmɔː/
Forms: Also Baltimore-bird, Baltimore-oriole.
Etymology: See quot.; Lord Baltimore was formerly proprietor of Maryland.
A bird ( Icterus baltimorii) of the Starling family, found throughout North America.
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1669 N. Shrigley True Relation Virginia & Mary-land 4 Fowle naturally to the Land are..Redbirds, the Baltenore [sic] bird, being black and yellow, [etc.].
1676 Speed's Theatre of Empire of Great-Brit. (new ed.) ii. 44 That which is black and yellow is called the Baltemore-bird, from the colours of his Lordships Coat of Arms.
1709 J. Lawson New Voy. Carolina 145 The Baltimore-Bird, so call'd from the Lord Baltimore, Proprietor of all Maryland, in which Province many of them are found.
1731 C. Mortimer in Philos. Trans. 1729–30 (Royal Soc.) 36 432 The Baltimore Bird hath its Name from being of the same Colour with Lord Baltimore's Coat of Arms.
1808 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. I. 27 The orange, black-capp'd Baltimore is seen.
1868 J. G. Wood Homes without Hands xiii. 239 The Baltimore Oriole..coloured with orange and black in bold contrast.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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