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
For instance, I have never met with any account of regular assemblages of black game in Scotland, yet these assemblages are so well known in Germany and Scandinavia that they have special names.
From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Volume II (1st Edition) by Darwin, Charles
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
Game, as defined by the Night Poaching Act of 1828 and the Game Act of 1831, is pheasant, partridge, black game, red grouse, bustard and hare.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various
I know to some black game, far away up the hill.
From Fern's Hollow by Stretton, Hesba
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