black game
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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 Charles Darwin
"Bears, wolves, deer, besides, of course, black game, capercailzie, ptarmigan—every thing one could desire."
From The Sowers by Henry Seton Merriman
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
The twilight had now drawn on, and at last we stood opposite to the covert in which it was said that there were black game or partridges.
From The Devil's Elixir Vol. I (of 2) by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
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