What is "ortolans"

Usage examples of "ortolans".

I really wanted to send you the ortolans, but in the end none have been found, and I hear they fly away when the thrushes arrive.

You have been unlucky in the ortolans, just as I was foiled by the gray partridges, because I lost them to the goshawk falcon.

We Romans cram ourselves with ortolans, drown in sauce, and poison ourselves with spice.

Let us not mistake the nature of a real civilization, nor suppose we have it because we can convert crude iron into the most delicate mechanism, or transport ourselves sixty miles an hour, or even if we shall refine our carnal tastes so as to be satisfied at dinner with the tongues of ortolans and the breasts of singing-birds.

A seat for a Metropolitan borough, or a love of ortolans, or a taste even for new boots will ruin a man who puts himself in the way of ruin.