CHIMNEY SWALLOW Definition & Meaning

chimney swallow

noun

British. barn swallow.
chimney swift.

chimney swallow

noun

another name for common swallow See swallow 2
a less common name for chimney swift

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Origin of chimney swallow¹

First recorded in 1765–75

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The observant Zuñis have incorporated this in one of their pretty proverbs, “When chimney swallows circle and call they speak of rain.”

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Plenty of people persist in calling them chimney swallows, which is precisely what they are not.

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Slipping down the marble staircase in her gray evening gown, Ruth Drew felt like a chimney swallow amid an assemblage of brilliant, gaily colored birds.

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This is in regard to the chimney swallows.

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Why, a little bird, a chimney swallow, chirping and fluttering, poor thing, with fright.

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