Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An old spelling of
partridge .
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Examples
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Every such Religious House had its “fish stews,” or ponds, keeping, as Chaucer says, “Many a bream, and many a luce (pike) in stew, and many a fat partrich eke in mewe.”
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter
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"Ful many a fat partrich hadde he in muw" (A, 349).
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
bilby commented on the word partrich
Found in a partri?
August 5, 2022