How To Use ortolan In A Sentence
- Also brought to mind is the French practice of eating the ortolan, which is an endangered French song bird. Destructoid
- Consider late French President François Mitterrand, who enjoyed a very special delicacy: a small songbird called the ortolan, drowned in Armagnac, then flambéed and eaten whole. Carla Bruni Eats Well, But Nicolas Sarkozy Just Eats Chocolates, Says French Chef
- After their heads have been cut or bitten off, ortolans are eaten whole (bones and all) from underneath a napkin - to hide the shame of such cruelty and gluttony from the sight of God.
- A sea (hydrographical) map is properly called a chart, or a portolan (a chart showing ports). Times, Sunday Times
- On an oceanic voyage, however, especially at higher latitudes, the converging meridians on the physical globe conflicted with the parallel meridians shown on the traditional portolan chart.
- On an oceanic voyage, however, especially at higher latitudes, the converging meridians on the physical globe conflicted with the parallel meridians shown on the traditional portolan chart.
- Ortolan buntings are small, migratory passerine birds, and in the breeding areas in Norway, pairs raise one clutch from May - July.
- It was at the Oratoire that he earned the rudimentary elements of cookery and the rhythm of the seasons: trout, wild mushrooms and snails in the spring; melons, apricots and crayfish in the summer; hares, pheasants and ortolan in the autumn; ducks, geese and rabbit in the winter. Pierre Koffmann: 'Not enough British chefs cook from the heart'
- 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.
- 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.
