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

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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

A great fieldfare rises, like a lesser pigeon; fieldfares often haunt the verge of woods, while the redwing thrushes go out into the meadows.

From The Life of the Fields by Richard Jefferies

Thereupon the bird made answer, And the fieldfare answered chirping:70 'Brilliant is the day in summer, But a maiden's lot is brighter.

From Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes by W. F. (William Forsell) Kirby

Of our winter visitants that come to take the place of the summer migrants the fieldfare is the commonest and most familiar.

From A Cotswold Village by J. Arthur Gibbs

"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

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