Also 7 loriote, lariot, lorion. [a. F. loriot (also lorion Cotgr.), a corruption (due to misapprehension of the prefixed article) of OF. oriot, altered form of oriole ORIOLE.] The Golden Oriole, Oriolus galbula.

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1601.  Holland, Pliny, I. 287. The Witwall or Lariot … is all ouer yellow. Ibid., II. 628. A pale coloured bird called the Lariot.

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1658.  Phillips, Loriot, a Bird called a Witwall, Woodpecker, or Greenfinch.

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1676.  Coles, Lorion, -ot, a Witwal, Yellow-peck, or Hickway.

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1734.  Bailey, Loriot, a Bird, that being look’d upon, by one that has the Yellow Jaundice, cures the Person, and dies it self.

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1871.  R. H. Stoddard, Chinese Songs, Poems (1880), 231.

        The swallow and the loriot
  Are not so swift of wing,
For the summer overtakes them,
  As they chase the sweets of spring.

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