bunting

bunt·ing ¹  (bntng)

n.

1. A light cotton or woolen cloth used for making flags.

2. Flags considered as a group.

3. Strips of cloth or material usually in the colors of the national flag, used especially as drapery or streamers for festive decoration.

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[Perhaps from German bunt, colored.]

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bunt·ing ²  (bntng)

n.

Any of various birds of the family Fringillidae, having short, cone-shaped bills and brownish or grayish plumage.

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[Middle English.]

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bunt·ing ³  (bntng)

n.

A snug-fitting, hooded sleeping bag of heavy material for infants.

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[Perhaps from Scots buntin, plump, short.]

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Bunting [ˈbʌntɪŋ]

n

(Biographies / Bunting, Basil (1900-1985) M, British, WRITING: poet) Basil. 1900-85, British poet, author of Briggflatts (1966)

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bunting¹

n

1. (Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Textiles) a coarse, loosely woven cotton fabric used for flags, etc.

2. decorative flags, pennants, and streamers

3. (Transport / Nautical Terms) flags collectively, esp those of a boat

[of unknown origin]

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bunting²

n

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of numerous seed-eating songbirds of the families Fringillidae (finches, etc.) or Emberizidae, esp those of the genera Emberiza of the Old World and Passerina of North America. They all have short stout bills

[of unknown origin]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	bunting - a loosely woven fabric used for flags, etc. cloth, fabric, textile, material - artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers; "the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent"; "woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she measured off enough material for a dress"
	2.	bunting - any of numerous seed-eating songbirds of Europe or North America finch - any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds indigo bird, indigo bunting, indigo finch, Passerina cyanea - small deep blue North American bunting Emberiza hortulana, ortolan, ortolan bunting - brownish Old World bunting often eaten as a delicacy Emberiza schoeniclus, reed bunting - European bunting inhabiting marshy areas Emberiza citrinella, yellow bunting, yellowhammer - European bunting the male being bright yellow Emberiza aureola, yellow-breasted bunting - common in Russia and Siberia Plectrophenax nivalis, snow bunting, snowbird, snowflake - white Arctic bunting

Translations

bunting¹ [ˈbʌntɪŋ] N (Orn) → escribano m

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bunting² [ˈbʌntɪŋ] N (= decoration) → banderitas fpl, empavesado m; (= cloth) → lanilla f

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bunting [ˈbʌntɪŋ] n → banderoles fpl, drapeaux mpl

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bunting¹

n (Orn) → Ammer f ? corn bunting, reed bunting

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bunting²

n (= material) → Fahnentuch nt; (= flags) → bunte Fähnchen pl, → Wimpel pl

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bunting [ˈbʌntɪŋ] n (Naut) → gran pavese m; (in street) → bandierine fpl

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bunting [ˈbʌntɪŋ] n (Naut) → gran pavese m; (in street) → bandierine fpl

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bunting

n bunting [ˈbantiŋ]

flags for use in celebrations. vlae الدُّرسه: طائِر знамена vlajkosláva, prapor flagguirlande die Flaggen (pl.) σημαιάκια για στολισμό σε επετείους banderines lipuehted پرچم های کوچک برای تزئین lippurivistö drapeaux דִגְלוֹן ध्वजपट, झण्डे barjak zászló umbul-umbul fáni, fánaskreyting bandiere 旗 번팅(깃발, 신호기, 장막용의 천) vėliavos, gatvių papuošalai karodziņi (svētku izrotājumiem) panji-panji dundoek, wimpel flaggpynt (rodzaj dekoracji) bandeirola steaguri флаги vlajkosláva zastave ukrasna zastavica flaggdekorationer ธงหรือกระดาษสีประดับถนนหรืออาคารในเทศกาลฉลอง kutlama bayrakları 小彩旗 прапори جھنڈیاں ، پھریرے cờ trang trí 旗帜