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/wˈɪslər/ /hwˈɪslər/ Listen

noun

Whistler n.

One who, or that which, whistles, or produces or a whistling sound.

(Zool.)

(a)

The ring ousel.

(b)

The widgeon. (Prov. Eng.)

(c)

The golden-eye.

(d)

The golden plover and the gray plover.

(Zool.) The hoary, or northern, marmot (Arctomys pruinosus).

(Zool.) The whistlefish.

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Etymology of 'Whistler'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Whistler" Quotes from Famous Books

... always taken in the old squabble of real and ideal has enabled me to make at all clearer the different characteristics of painting and sculpture in Renaissance portraiture, the relation of the art of Raphael to the art of Velasquez and the art of Whistler. I can scarcely judge whether the pleasure which I owe to the crowding together, the moving about in my fancy, of the heroes and wizards and hippogriffs of the old tales of Oberon and Ogier; the association with the knights and ladies of Boiardo ...

— Euphorion - Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the - Renaissance - Vol. I • Vernon Lee

... womanly way for a girl. To be sure, there is not much difference between climbing fences and many of the gymnastic performances for girls; but time and place must be regarded. I should not frown if I heard a girl whistling, under two conditions,—she must be a good whistler, and confine her musical exercise to the woods. I think it is fine to see a girl go over a fence without sticking between the bars, and it really is too bad to have to be pulled through by an "I told you so!" It is fine to see a girl ...

— Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! • Annie H. Ryder

... Pre-Raphaelite landscapes, let us imagine ourselves straightway turning to one of the numerous scenes by Whistler of the Thames at twilight, with its glimmering lights and ghostly shapes of bridges and hulks of steamers. Nothing is outlined, nothing is clearly defined, but the mystery of London's river is caught and pictured ...

— The Book of Art for Young People • Agnes Conway

... is our first requirement about the ideal towards which progress is directed; it must be fixed. Whistler used to make many rapid studies of a sitter; it did not matter if he tore up twenty portraits. But it would matter if he looked up twenty times, and each time saw a new person sitting placidly for his portrait. So it does not matter (comparatively speaking) how often humanity fails ...

— Orthodoxy • G. K. Chesterton

... George Overman. The late John Hudson, the college tonsor and common room man,{*} was famous for having several times, for trifling wagers, drank a full overman of strong beer off at a draught. A Tun, another vessel in use at Pembroke, is a half pint silver cup. A Whistler, a silver pint tankard also in use there, was the gift of Mr. Anthony Whistler, a ...

— The English Spy • Bernard Blackmantle

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