flamingo: [16] Flamingos get their name from their reddish-pink plumage, which earned them the epithet ‘fire-bird’. This was expressed in Provençal (the language of southern French coastal areas, where flamingos abound) as flamenc, a compound formed from flama ‘flame’ (a descendant of Latin flamma) and the Germanic suffix -ing ‘belonging to’. English acquired the word via Portuguese flamengo. (It has, incidentally, no etymological connection with flamenco ‘Spanish dance’ [19], which comes from the Spanish word for ‘Flemish’: the people of Flanders seem to have had a reputation in the Middle Ages for bright, flamboyant dress, and hence ‘Flemish’ in Spanish became synonymous with ‘gipsy-like’.) => flame
flamingo (n.)
long-legged, long-necked brightly colored pink bird of the tropical Americas, 1560s, from Portuguese flamengo, Spanish flamengo, literally "flame-colored" (compare Greek phoinikopteros "flamingo," literally "red-feathered"), from Provençal flamenc, from flama "flame" (see flame (n.)) + Germanic suffix -enc "-ing, belonging to." Perhaps accommodated to words for Fleming (see flamenco).
实用例句
1. We met at a bar called the Flamingo.
我们在一家名为“火烈鸟”的酒吧相遇。
来自《权威词典》
2. This is the only species of flamingo in the region, easily recognized by its pink plumage.
这是那个地区唯一一种火烈鸟, 很容易凭粉红色的羽毛辨认出来.
来自《简明英汉词典》
3. But even the management of the Flamingo was impressed by Dame Blanche!
但即使这样,佛莱明戈的经理都对我们的布兰奇夫人印象深刻!
来自电影对白
4. Didn't you stay at a hotel called the Flamingo?
你难道没有在佛莱明戈旅馆待过?
来自电影对白
5. In my family, I am a flamingo in a flock of pigeons.
