noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
A sweet spirit of holy song came forth in notes like that of a nightingale and it filled the whole building.
▪
I have seen Shiraz and its roses and nightingales, which Gide wrote about but did not see.
▪
Night time is the best time to hear the nightingale - when it sings alone.
▪
Pan made the pipe of reeds which can sing as sweetly as the nightingale in spring.
▪
Two nightingales in the Emperor's birdcage, eh?
▪
What this suggests is that nightingales and bowerbirds have transferred their color to their songs and bowers.