bird stuffer

English

Noun

bird stuffer (plural bird stuffers)

  1. (obsolete) A person who prepares bird specimens; a bird taxidermist.
    • 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 275:
      My Portuguese bird-stuffer Fernandez now insisted on breaking his agreement and returning to Singapore; partly from homesickness, but more I believe from the idea that his life was not worth many months' purchase among such bloodthirsty and uncivilized peoples.
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