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ortolan

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈɔː.təl.ən/Part of speech nounSorted alnoortStarts with OEnds with N0 clues
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Definitions

  1. brownish Old World bunting often eaten as a delicacy

Word origin

From Middle French hortolan (“gardener”), from Latin hortulānus (“gardener”). Doublet of hortulan.

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  • […]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.

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