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ortolan 1. a brownish Old World bunting, Emberiza hortulana, regarded as a delicacy 2. any of various other small birds eaten as delicacies, esp the bobolink How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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With this, he had likewise that distinguishing taste, which serves to direct men in their choice of the object or food of their several appetites; and this taught him to consider Sophia as a most delicious morsel, indeed to regard her with the same desires which an ortolan inspires into the soul of an epicure. "This," she remarked, with a little satisfied sigh as she selected an ortolan, "is a very satisfactory place to be carried off to. Within an hour the guests were seated around a board which creaked under the great pasties and joints of meat, varied by those more dainty dishes in which the French excelled, the spiced ortolan and the truffled beccaficoes. |
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