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Ortolan

noun
1.
Brownish Old World bunting often eaten as a delicacy.  Synonyms: Emberiza hortulana, ortolan bunting.






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"Ortolan" Quotes from Famous Books



... any longer, he rose hastily, snatched his hat and cane, and without speaking a word, was making toward the door; Count Picon ran after him, crying, "Monsieur Grossi! Monsieur Grossi! stop, there's a most excellent ortolan on the spit for you." "Monsieur le Count," replied the other, turning his head, "though you should give me a roasted angel, I would not stay." Such was M. Grossi, whom Madam de Warrens undertook and succeeded in civilizing. Though his time was very much occupied, he accustomed himself to ...
— The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Complete • Jean Jacques Rousseau

... been found in Corfu, Sicily, Crete,—Whittlesea Mere,—and Yarley Fen;—in marshes always, wherever it is; (nothing said of its behavior on ice,) and not generally found farther north than Cumberland. Its food is rather nasty—water-slugs and the like,—but it is itself as fat as an ortolan, "almost melts in the hand." (Gould.) Its own color, brown spotted with white; "the spots on the wing coverts surrounded with black, which gives them a studded or pearly appearance." (Bewick,—he means by 'pearly,' rounded or projecting.) ...
— Love's Meinie - Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds • John Ruskin



Words linked to "Ortolan" :   genus Emberiza, bunting, Emberiza



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