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canvasback en · NOUN

Etymology

From canvas + back.

Meanings

1. A North American wild duck, Aythya valisineria, popular as a game bird.
   • The native State of Patrick Henry Hanway was a moss-grown member of the republic and had been one of the original thirteen. It possessed with other impedimenta a moss-grown aristocracy that borrowed money, devoured canvasbacks, drank burgundy, wore spotless tow in summer, clung to the duello, and talked of days of greatness which had been before the war. 1904, Alfred Henry Lewis, “How a President is Bred”, in The President: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: A[lfred] S[mith] Barnes and Company, →OCLC, page 24:
   • 1857 The Private Correspondence of Daniel Webster Yesterday, I received a great present from Mr. Webster, from Washington; a large basket of canvasback ducks and a large turkey.

Forms

Translations (13)

nv naalʼeełíłtsooígíí (Aythya valisineria) · tfn veqʼes dasdeli (Aythya valisineria) · ko 큰흰죽지 (Aythya valisineria) · cmn 帆背潛鴨 /帆背潜鸭 (Aythya valisineria) · cmn 美洲磯雁 /美洲矶雁 (Aythya valisineria) · de Riesentafelente (Aythya valisineria) · es porrón coacoxtle (Aythya valisineria) · fi isopunasotka (Aythya valisineria) · aht ndzeli (Aythya valisineria) · ru паруси́новый ныро́к (Aythya valisineria) · taa tanidret xwch'edets'ena' (Aythya valisineria) · ga lacha Mheiriceánach (Aythya valisineria) · is dúkönd (Aythya valisineria)