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ˈOrpington
[From Orpington in Kent.]
Name of a breed of poultry.
189.F. A. McKenzie Pop. Poultry-Keeping 56 Mr. Cook, a poultry farmer then living in the village of Orpington..introduced the single-combed Black Orpington to the poultry world in the autumn of 1886. 1897K. B. B. De La Bere New Poultry Guide i. 18 He stocks..the other house with Dorkings, or Orpingtons, as being at once good layers, table fowls, and sitters. |