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单词 canvas-backed duck
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canvas-backed duck
2. A North American duck ( Fuligula valisneriana), so called from the colour of the back feathers. Called also more fully canvas-back duck, and canvas-backed duck.
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1785 T. Jefferson Notes Virginia vi. 130 Besides these [birds] we have..The Widgeon, Sheldrach, or Canvas back, Black head.
1809 A. Wilson Foresters in Port Folio Nov. 562 Four large ducks..The far-fam'd canvass-backs.
1832 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 846/2 The canvass-back stands alone.
1832 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 846/2 The man who has feasted on canvass-back ducks, cannot philosophically be said to have lived in vain.
1848 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. (rev. ed.) vii. iii. 393 The gastronomical merits of..canvas-back ducks.
1859 A. Helps Friends in Council New Ser. I. i. 20 He had never tasted a canvas-back duck.
1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes I. viii. 275 The water in both was blackened with flights of canvas-backed ducks.
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