loriot
(ˈlɒrɪət)
Also 7 loriote, lariot, lorion.
[a. F. loriot (also lorion Cotgr.), a corruption (due to misapprehension of the prefixed article) of OF. oriot, altered form of oriole oriole.]
The Golden Oriole, Oriolus galbula.
| 1601 Holland Pliny I. 287 The Witwall or Lariot..is all ouer yellow. Ibid. II. 628 A pale coloured bird called the Lariot. 1658 Phillips, Loriot, A Bird called a Witwall, Woodpecker, or Greenfinch. 1676 Coles, Lorion, -ot, a Witwal, Yellow-peck, or Hickway. 1724 Bailey, Loriot, a Bird, that being look'd upon, by one that has the Yellow Jaundice, cures the Person, and dies it self. 18.. R. H. Stoddard Chinese Songs Poems (1880) 231 The swallow and the loriot Are not so swift of wing. |