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bunting

/buhn-ting/US // ˈbʌn tɪŋ //UK // (ˈbʌntɪŋ) //

包子,包子铺,包头,包头市

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a coarse, open fabric of worsted or cotton for flags, signals, etc.
    • : patriotic and festive decorations made from such cloth, or from paper, usually in the form of draperies, wide streamers, etc., in the colors of the national flag.
    • : flags, especially a vessel's flags, collectively.

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Examples

  • Songbirds like cardinals and buntings secure spots in dense foliage, while woodpeckers hang on to the downwind side of tree trunks or take cover inside cavities.

  • Even bunting has become harder for a pitcher in recent years.

  • As the bunting populations began to drop, the government outlawed hunting them.

  • One study of yellow-breasted buntings in China found that this once-abundant species is rapidly disappearing.

  • She was even sweet to that smug ingrate Miss Bunting after she kept insulting everyone at dinner.

  • Black and purple bunting went up over the doorway at the 84th Precinct stationhouse where Ramos and Liu had been assigned.

  • The big placard advertising the show was now trimmed with red-white-and-blue bunting: ANIMALS IN SPACE!

  • Or at least, we wouldn't celebrate it with two weeks of bunting.

  • Shops are covered in Union Jacks, bunting has sold out, and everyone loves an excuse to bake patriotic cookies.

  • Every rag of bunting, from the tiny streamer of the fishing-boat to the great flag of ships of war, droops against the mast.

  • He would let Bunting travel light to the Rio Seco, and then load him for her as no burro ever was loaded to cross the border!

  • But Chappo waved him onward, for the wagon and the pack mules, and even little gray Bunting had turned reluctant feet north.

  • It isn't just colors and bunting—The red and the blue and the white.

  • As he walked along he noticed that the street was gay with bunting.