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pectoral sandpiper in American English US a large, grayish-brown, American sandpiper (Calidris melanotos) with a streaked breast, white belly, and yellow legs pectoral sandpiper in American Englishnounan American sandpiper, Calidris melanotos, the male of which, when courting, inflates its chest conspicuously Word origin [1820–30, Amer.]This word is first recorded in the period 1820–30. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: acetate, blouse, karma, morphology, myth |