American eagle
the bald eagle, especially as depicted on the great seal of the U.S.
Contemporary Examples
Then corporate people from American eagle went on The Today Show on Friday to laugh all about it.
American Eagle’s Spray-On ‘Skinny Skinny’ Jeans Are, Thankfully, A Joke Isabel Wilkinson March 21, 2013
It begins with the crash of American eagle Flight 4184 at Roselawn, Indiana, in October 1994.
Behind the Buffalo Crash Clive Irving February 12, 2009
Historical Examples
A combat would be inevitable, with the chance that the American eagle would descend upon the combatants and swoop them away.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 5, No. 28, February, 1860 Various
The American eagle has spread its wings of glory over the world’s top.
My Attainment of the Pole Frederick A. Cook
American eagle, The: The liberty bird that permits no liberties.
Toasts William Pittenger
I said that out of this egg ‘was hatched the American eagle.’
Julia Ward Howe Laura E. Richards
Many of the latter were born under the American eagle at Panama.
The Panama Canal Frederic Jennings Haskin
She died while I was on the steamer, American eagle, hastening to her.
Sixty Years of California Song Margaret Blake-Alverson
The American eagle has lived too sumptuously of late his stummic becum foul, and he’s takin a slite emetic.
The Complete Works of Artemus Ward Charles Farrar Browne (AKA Artemus Ward)
The American eagle makes the first speech, which I will translate to you.
Citizen Bird Mabel Osgood Wright and Elliott Coues
noun
the bald eagle, esp when depicted as the national emblem of the US
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