fieldfare

American  

[feeld-fair] / ˈfildˌfɛər /

noun

1. a European thrush, Turdus pilaris, having reddish-brown plumage with an ashy head and a blackish tail.

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fieldfare British  

/ ˈfiːldˌfɛə /

noun

1. a large Old World thrush, Turdus pilaris , having a pale grey head and rump, brown wings and back, and a blackish tail

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Etymology

Origin of fieldfare

before 1100; Middle English feldefare (with two f 's by alliterative assimilation), Old English feldeware perhaps, field dweller

Example Sentences

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fieldfare

To be honest at first I was more excited about a picture I’d taken earlier, which I had thought was a fieldfare – a type of thrush.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 20, 2015

"I'll undeceive 'em quickly now, I bet a crown; And whether fieldfare, tit, or crow, Vill bring 'em down."

From Sketches by Seymour — Volume 03 by Robert Seymour

“Verily, some folks be born as old as their grandmothers,” said Agatha, accepting a fieldfare from the sewer, and squeezing a lemon over it.

From The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century by W. (William) Rainey

The moderns have seldom thought of raising game artificially; among the Romans, artificial raising was confined to the hare and fieldfare.

From Principles Of Political Economy by John J. (John Joseph) Lalor

In Chaucer's "Romaunt of the Rose," we find the poet using the expression, "Farewel fieldfare," a valediction on summer friends that, like the wild and migratory fieldfare, take to themselves wings and depart.

From Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources by F. Edward (Frederick Edward) Hulme