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

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 Jefferies, Richard

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 Lalor, John J. (John Joseph)

The fieldfare visits this country only in hard wintry weather.

From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing

The bitter north wind drives even the wild fieldfare to the berries in the garden hedge; so it drives stray human creatures to the door.

From Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Jefferies, Richard