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| e·gret [ grət, éggrət ] (plural e·grets) |
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heron with long ornamental feathers: a small, mainly white heron that produces long drooping ornamental feathers on the lower part of the back at the start of the breeding season. Egrets' feathers were once popular as decorations for women's hats, so that the birds were hunted almost to extinction. Family Ardeidae.
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| [14th century. Via Anglo-Norman egrette< Provençal aigreta< aigron "heron" < Germanic] |
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