Excerpted from William Butler Yeats' poem, "The Lake Isle of Innisfree":... "And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, / Dropping from the veils of the morning where the cricket sings; / There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, / And evening full of the Linnet's wings."
Linnet Ridgeway is a character in Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile.
― Anonymous User 6/17/2008
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From the American Heritage Dictionary, about the etymology of the Linnet bird:[Obsolete French linette, from Old French, from lin, flax (from its feeding on flax seed), from Latin lînum.]