单词 | ortolan |
释义 | ortolann.ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > gardener > [noun] leightonwardc1000 curtilera1300 gardenerc1300 gardener1340 curtelaina1400 hortulan1526 ortolan1526 Adamist1623 fosterer1628 gardeneressa1645 under-gardener1687 horticulist1754 horticultor1760 yard boy1776 garden boy1798 horticulturist1818 plantsman1881 mali1908 plantswoman1933 1526 in State Papers Henry VIII (1849) VI. 534 I yielde my sylffe entyerly to the wyll of the moost notable ortolane. 2. North American. Any of certain birds of North America or the Caribbean region resembling the ortolan (see sense 3) or of similar gastronomic reputation; esp. (a) the bobolink, Dolichonyx oryzivorus; (b) the sora, Porzana carolina; (c) the snow bunting, Plectrophenax nivalis. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > family Rallidae (rail) > member of genus Porzana ortolan1666 sora1705 quail1768 swamp crakea1891 Laysan rail1893 the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Icteridae > [noun] > genus Dolichonyx (bobolink) ortolan1666 ricebird1709 reed-bird1764 bobolink1774 rice bunting1781 butter bird1790 October bird1793 skunk blackbird1829 skunk bird1831 rice troupial1836 meadow-wink1884 1666 J. Davies tr. C. de Rochefort Hist. Caribby-Islands 89 There are also Black-birds, Feldivars, Thrushes, and Hortolans [Fr. Ortolans], in a manner like those of the same name among us. 1731 Philos. Trans. 1729–30 (Royal Soc.) 36 427 Hortulanus Carol. the Carolina Ortulan, with Rice on which it feeds. 1760 T. Pichon Cape Breton 74 Lastly, you meet here..with great plenty of game, partucularly ortolans, and white rabbets of a most delicate taste. 1793 B. Edwards Hist. Brit. Colonies W. Indies iv. 99 The most delicious bird in the West Indies is the ortalan or October-bird. It is the Emberiza oryzivora of Linnæus, or rice-bird of South Carolina. 1836 M. Holley Texas 100 Ortolans, which form so celebrated a dish in Europe, are abundant in Texas. 1894 Mod. Lang. Notes 9 43/1 The name ortolan, which in French of France seems limited to the Emberyza is here given to the shore-lark (Fringilla graminea). 1907 ‘N. Blanchan’ Birds Every Child should Know ix. 137 Bobolink. Called also: Reedbird; Ricebird; Ortolan; Maybird. 1957 W. L. McAtee Folk-names Canad. Birds 67 Snow Bunting [also known as] ortolan. 1997 R.-M. Rejouis & V. Vinokurov tr. P. Chamoiseau Texaco (1998) 45 Flanked by my papa, he began to go down toward the promising woods, hunting ground for the passing ortolan or teal. 3. A migratory bunting, Emberiza hortulana, which breeds in parts of southern and eastern Europe, Scandinavia, and western central Asia, has mainly brown plumage with a yellow throat and a grey or (in the male) olive-green head, and was formerly widely regarded as a delicacy. Also ortolan bunting. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > fowls > [noun] > flesh of other birds larka1325 pigeona1425 storka1475 wheatear1591 ortolana1667 loom1878 ostrich1955 the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > [noun] > family Emberizidae > subfamily Emberizinae (bunting) > genus Emberiza > emberiza hortulana (ortolan) ortolana1667 a1667 A. Cowley tr. Horace Epode ii, in Wks. (1669) v. 108 Nor Ortalans nor Godwits nor the rest Of costly names that glorify a Feast. 1682 G. Wheler Journey into Greece i. 67 As fat as Hortulans in France and Italie. 1717 A. Pope Corr. 13 Sept. (1956) I. 428 I love no meat but Ortolans, and no women but you. 1732 Philos. Trans. 1731–2 (Royal Soc.) 37 175 The Soreè. This bird is in Virginia as much in Request for the Delicacy of its Flesh, as the Ortulan in Europe. 1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. II. iii. 145 The Ortolan is a small singing bird..common in France, Italy, and other parts of Europe. It is the epicure's prime morçeau. 1843 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Birds I. 457 The Ortolan Bunting is only a summer visiter to the middle and northern countries of Europe. 1895 Ld. Rosebery in Daily News 3 July 7/4 The choicest morsel that you can put before an epicure, and that is an ortolan inside a quail. 1903 E. P. Oppenheim Yellow Crayon xxviii. 212 ‘This’, she remarked, with a little satisfied sigh as she selected an ortolan, ‘is a very satisfactory place to be carried off to.’ 1986 Bird Watching May 32/2 Added to these scintillating Scandinavian treasures were a couple of ortolan buntings, a few red-backed shrikes, golden orioles and an icterine warbler. 1999 Daily Tel. 3 Feb. 13/4 An estimated 150,000 ortolans..are trapped every autumn as they pass through south-west France on their way to North Africa and the Middle East. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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