fairy swallow

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   fancy domestic pigeon having blue-and-white plumage and heavily muffed feet

   Broaderdomestic pigeon

Questions about fairy swallow

What does fairy swallow mean?

fairy swallow means "fancy domestic pigeon having blue-and-white plumage and heavily muffed feet".

Is fairy swallow a common word?

fairy swallow is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.