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   rare bird

   noun

   • 1. an exceptional person or thing; a rarity: "the style is a rare bird in Brazilian music"

   Word Origin translating Latin rara avis (Juvenal's Satires, vi.165: rara auis in terris nigroque simillima cycno, ‘[a good woman is] a rare bird in this world and very like a black swan’).

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