How To Use ortolan In A Sentence
- There is no generally accepted comprehensive definition of a portolan chart.
- In its purest form, the portolan chart was a highly functional tool for navigation whether in the contained arena of the Mediterranean or later in the open oceans of the world.
- From early times, charts called portolans (harbor guides) were available to provide details required by the coastline-hugging sailor - depth of the water, location of treacherous rocks, special landmarks, et cetera.
- [Footnote: The ortolan is a very small bird, which is fattened in lamp lighted rooms at great expense, because it is found to be of a more delicate flavor when excluded from the daylight. History of King Charles the Second of England
- Proust was revisiting a world he knew in the recent past, whereas Memory Maps spreads out in rings beyond the familiar and personal past into more distant time too, and charts, like an old portolan, unexamined coastlines, land masses, and possible harbours. Memory Maps
- ortolan" -- is also found in the same markets with the canvas-back. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire
- Dali was quite impressed, though he said he himself only ate ‘food with faces’ which meant fish and ortolans.
- Nonetheless, in this period the portolan chart remained very much centred on the Mediterranean and destinations easily reached from there.
- The stunning list of passerines to be found at the site includes calandra lark, crag martin, rufous - tailed scrub robin, three species of wheatears, blue rock thrush, various species of warblers, rock nuthatch, lesser grey and woodchat shrikes, rose - coloured starling, rock sparrow, black - headed and ortolan buntings, and others.
- Also brought to mind is the French practice of eating the ortolan, which is an endangered French song bird. Destructoid
