philomel
Noun
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Noun
philomel (plural philomels)
- (poetic) The nightingale.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet CII”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. Neuer before Imprinted, London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, OCLC 216596634 ↗:
- As Philomel in summer's front doth sing.
- 1713, Anne Finch, A Nocturnal Reverie
- And lonely Philomel, still waking, sings.
- 1600, Sir Walter Raleigh, The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
- And Philomel becometh dumb.
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