any of numerous seed-eating songbirds of Europe or North America
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Bunting \Bun"ting\, n. [Scot. buntlin, corn-buntlin, OE. bunting, buntyle; of unknown origin.] (Zo["o]l.) A bird of the genus {Emberiza}, or of an allied genus, related to the finches and sparrows (family {Fringillid[ae]}).
Note: Among European species are the common or corn bunting ({Emberiza miliaria}); the ortolan ({Emberiza hortulana}); the cirl ({Emberiza cirlus}); and the black-headed ({Granitivora melanocephala}). American species are the bay-winged or grass ({Po["o]c[ae]tes gramineus} or {Po[oe]cetes gramineus}); the black-throated ({Spiza Americana}); the towhee bunting or chewink ({Pipilo}); the snow bunting ({Plectrophanax nivalis}); the rice bunting or bobolink, and others. See {Ortolan}, {Chewick}, {Snow bunting}, {Lark bunting}.
Bunting \Bun"ting\, Buntine \Bun"tine\, n. [Prov. E. bunting sifting flour, OE. bonten to sift, hence prob. the material used for that purpose.] A thin woolen stuff, used chiefly for flags, colors, and ships' signals.
Ortolan \Or"to*lan\, n. [F., fr. It. ortolano ortolan, gardener, fr. L. hortulanus gardener, fr. hortulus, dim. of hortus garden. So called because it frequents the hedges of gardens. See {Yard} an inclosure, and cf. {Hortulan}.] (Zo["o]l.) (a) A European singing bird ({Emberiza hortulana}), about the size of the lark, with black wings. It is esteemed delicious food when fattened. Called also {bunting}. (b) In England, the wheatear ({Saxicola [oe]nanthe}). (c) In America, the sora, or Carolina rail ({Porzana Carolina}). See {Sora}.
He'll step onto the platform through an archway festooned with red bunting similar to the bunting draped over the door of Federal Hall in New York when Washington was sworn in for his first term in 1789.
He'll step onto the platform through an archway festooned with red bunting similar to the bunting draped over the door of Federal Hall in New York when Washington was sworn in for his first term in 1789.
On the route the team will follow tomorrow on their triumphal return - win or lose - the lampposts are decked with red and white pompoms and bunting. To an outsider all this may seem excessive.
The new citizens, many of them Asian and Hispanic, were sworn in outside the Union County Courthouse, which was draped in red, white and blue bunting and colonial American flags.
While it was a public holiday and bunting draped some streets of Lusaka, the capital, there were no signs of open celebrations.
On Friday, the day after the quake hit Soviet Armenia, churches were draped in black bunting, children laid wreaths at a monument, and charitable organizations geared up to aid victims.
BASE RATE cuts cannot possibly be bad news for the domestic property market. However, homeowners should not hang out the bunting just yet.