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

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

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

It should be remarked that neither redwing nor fieldfare sings during the winter; they of course have their ‘call’ and cry of alarm, but by no stretch of courtesy could it be called a song.

From Wild Life in a Southern County by Richard Jefferies

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

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