1822: egret and heron Dec 11, 2019

The word 'egret', itself refers to a type of heron, and likewise, the word comes from a French word for 'heron', 'aigrette'. 'Aigrette' in English is also a type of headdress. Anyway, French also has the word 'héron' for the type of bird as a whole, but this is of Germanic origin.

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