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The bakers were normal people: a shop worker, a vicar’s wife, a searingly competitive sixty-three-year-old Buddhist whose coup de grâce was a flock of choux-pastry cygnets.—Ruby Tandoh, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025 The theater is named after a young swan, called a cygnet.—R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025 Following the passing of his previous mate, Zeus fathered five cygnets in 2019.—Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025 In the film, the dress represents Hepburn’s character’s transformation from an unrefined, ponytailed cygnet into a swan, freshly molded by a stint in Paris.—Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 22 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cygnet
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Etymology
Middle English sygnett, from Anglo-French cignet, from cigne swan, from Latin cycnus, cygnus, from Greek kyknos
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