Definition of "egret" [e•gret]

• Any of several usually white herons of the genera Bubulcus, Casmerodius, Egretta, and related genera, characteristically having long, showy, drooping plumes during the breeding season. (noun)

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• "It was a mark of beauty in Lambanein to have what they called an egret’s neck; the arthygater didn’t possess one, so she exaggerated it by other means."
• "I try to go too, and there comes along what you call the egret of a thistle, that I get on to, and it floats with me right into my bed, and I wake up.”"
• "I don’t get why he doesn’t know anything about grebes … Still that crazy reddish egret is way cooler …."