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How to use ortolan in a sentence

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The ortolan was so prized as a delicacy that it was almost hunted into extinction.
The beccafico, however, is not as a rule artificially fattened, and on this account was preferred by some sensitive tastes to the ortolan.
Description of the capture and stuffing of the game bird ortolan which is a great food delicacy.
My earliest food memory... Seeing my grandfather catch an ortolan.
Now proper French tradition requires that when you eat the ortolan, you drape a napkin over your head and consume the bird in one bite, beak, bones and all.
Among bird species the more noteable include Bonelli's Warbler, Hoopoe, Ortolan and Rock Buntings.
Bardsey scored with a Marsh Warbler, Greenish Warbler, Ortolan Bunting, Nightingale, Ring Ouzel and Red-throated Pipit.
Examples from Classical Literature
Farther, he would give Monsieur an ortolan in a vine leaf, and a dish of stewed sorrel.
The ortolan Bunting, Emberiza hortulana, and some others, are fattened for the table in 191 five or six days.
The cage of the young bird was near that of an ortolan, a European bird noted as a singer, and a common cage-bird.
There is, however, some consolation for the rarity of the ortolan in England.
In the house they must be treated in the same manner as the ortolan.
But the youngster paid no attention to him, and kept up his ortolan notes.
The ortolan is not famed for its song, which is, however, soft and sweet.
It is approached in delicacy by our wheatear, which is termed the English Ortolan.
A gourmand will take an Ortolan by the legs and craunch it in delicious mouthfuls, so as absolutely to lose none of it.
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