settings
Wuthering Heights vocabulary
9 birds and/or bird terms
help & settings
[x]
-
moor-cock
-
synonyms: red grouse, Lagopus lagopus scotica ???
tags: [avian]
► definition
Definition:the red grouse
image: by Archibald Thorburn, https://www.wikiart.org/en/archibald-thorburn/red-grouse-on-the-moor-1917sound file: by Lawrence Shove (original file trimmed to reduce file size)[CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 )]
► uses
Uses:
they put pigeons’ feathers in the pillows—no wonder I couldn’t die! Let me take care to throw it on the floor when I lie down. And here is a moor-cock’s;
---
sport skirt and alpine hat with moorcock’s feather, his hands stuck deep in his breeches pockets,
James Joyce. Ulysses
help with search