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 Man’tuan Swain, Swan, or Bard (The).Man’umit. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Ma’nucodia’ta (The).
 
An old name for a bird of paradise. It is a corruption of the Malay manute-dewata, the bird of the gods.   1
       
“Less pure the footless fowl of heaven, that never
Rests upon earth, but on the wing for ever,
Hovering o’er flowers, their fragrant food inhale.
Drink the descending dew upon the way:
And sleep aloft while floating on the gale.”
       
Southey: Curse of Kehama, xxi. 6.
 


 Man’tuan Swain, Swan, or Bard (The).Man’umit. 

 
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