"merlesse" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [French]

IPA: /mɛʁ.lɛs/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Avatea-merlesse.wav Forms: merlesses [plural], merle [masculine]
Rhymes: -ɛs Etymology: From merle + -esse. Etymology templates: {{af|fr|merle|-esse|id2=female}} merle + -esse Head templates: {{fr-noun|f|m=merle}} merlesse f (plural merlesses, masculine merle)
  1. Female blackbird Tags: feminine Categories (lifeform): Female animals, Thrushes Synonyms: merlette

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_text": "From merle + -esse.",
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      "form": "merlesses",
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    },
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            "Sciences",
            "Social sciences",
            "Society"
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        },
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          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "fr",
          "name": "Thrushes",
          "orig": "fr:Thrushes",
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            "Vertebrates",
            "Chordates",
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            "Lifeforms",
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            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
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        {
          "english": "One day, when Catherine had thought more of looking for nests in the bushes than of keeping her animals, towards evening she found a blackbird’s nest with three large cubs already well feathered. They hardly seemed fierce, for when she showed them the tip of her finger, imitating the cry of the blackbird, they opened their yellow beaks and showed their large pink throats.",
          "ref": "1874, George Sand, Contes d’une grand’mère, Michel Lévy frères, page 159:",
          "text": "Un jour que Catherine avait plus songé à chercher des nids dans les buissons qu’à garder ses bêtes, elle trouva vers le soir un nid de merles avec trois gros petits déjà bien emplumés. Ils ne paraissaient guère farouches, car, lorsqu’elle leur montrait le bout de son doigt en imitant le cri de la merlesse, ils ouvraient leurs becs jaunes et montraient leurs larges gosiers tout roses.",
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          "word": "merlette"
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    },
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    },
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      "rhymes": "-ɛs"
    }
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From merle + -esse.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "merlesses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
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      ]
    }
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  ],
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    "mer‧lesse"
  ],
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          "ref": "1874, George Sand, Contes d’une grand’mère, Michel Lévy frères, page 159:",
          "text": "Un jour que Catherine avait plus songé à chercher des nids dans les buissons qu’à garder ses bêtes, elle trouva vers le soir un nid de merles avec trois gros petits déjà bien emplumés. Ils ne paraissaient guère farouches, car, lorsqu’elle leur montrait le bout de son doigt en imitant le cri de la merlesse, ils ouvraient leurs becs jaunes et montraient leurs larges gosiers tout roses.",
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    },
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      "rhymes": "-ɛs"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "word": "merlette"
    }
  ],
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}

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