释义 |
‖ gibier Now rare.|ʒibje| Also 8 gibbier. [Fr.] Game; wild-fowl.
1514in Rutland Papers (Camden) 27 Item, iiij pieces of gibier or wildfowle, that is to say, ij perdryches and ij..woodcocks, and at some tyme other gybier. 1704Addison Italy (1733) 126 The Fowl and Gibbier are tax free. 1827Lytton Pelham xix, An excellent restaurateur's..where one gets irreproachable gibier, and meets no English. 1872[Earl Pembroke & G. H. Kingsley] S. Sea Bubbles v. 129 A small whistling parrot, with a purple back and white throat, which I am told is the king's favourite gibier. |