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птичье молоко; голубиное молочко |
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что-либо несуществующее (воображаемый предмет, за которым посылают, желая одурачить кого-либо) The custom at the time had degenerated into a senseless sport, the object being to take advantage of a person's credulity by dispatching him on an impossible errand such as buying the "history of Eve's mother", or pigeon's milk or a similar absurdity. VLZ_58) |
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| abbr., zool. |
cropmil (a curd-like secretion from a pigeon's crop, which it regurgitates and feeds to its young VLZ_58) |
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cropmilk (a curd-like secretion from a pigeon's crop, which it regurgitates and feeds to its young VLZ_58) |
