black game
Britishnoun
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Dressed in their black game jersies, they laughed and teased one another like privileged children of royalty.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
I remember once, on such a day, taking a noble sportsman who was very keen to shoot a blackcock, up to some black game sitting on a thorn hedge.
From The Confessions of a Poacher by Anonymous
A tenant may now claim compensation for damage to crops by deer, pheasants, partridges, grouse, and black game.
From A Short History of English Agriculture by W. H. R. (William Henry Ricketts) Curtler
And I daresay good shooting there too, with black game and such like.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, April 23, 1892 by Various
"Bears, wolves, deer, besides, of course, black game, capercailzie, ptarmigan—every thing one could desire."
From The Sowers by Henry Seton Merriman
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