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corbie

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corbie [ˈkɔːbɪ (Scot) ˈkɔːrbɪ]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a Scot name for raven1, crow1
[from Old French corbin, from Latin corvīnus corvine]
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A favourite feast for a corbie is the eyes of newborn lambs, if the mother is not on its feet quick enough to defend it.
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But she makes room for powerful queens like Isabel of Castile, prophets like Elizabeth Barton (executed by Henry VIII for complaining about his divorce to Isabel's daughter Katharine), and shrewd saints such as Colette of Corbie, who "parlay[ed] the symbolic capital available from her spirituality" (27) into material and political support from the Burgundians.
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