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What is an ortolan?

What is an ortolan? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A small European migratory bunting, Emberiza hortulana, once eaten whole as a delicacy.
  2. (US) Any of various similar birds, especially the bobolink, sora, or snow bunting.
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In the house they must be treated in the same manner as the ortolan.
My earliest food memory... Seeing my grandfather catch an ortolan.
There is, however, some consolation for the rarity of the ortolan in England.
Farther, he would give Monsieur an ortolan in a vine leaf, and a dish of stewed sorrel.
The ortolan was so prized as a delicacy that it was almost hunted into extinction.
The ortolan Bunting, Emberiza hortulana, and some others, are fattened for the table in 191 five or six days.

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