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snipe
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tags: [avian] [food]
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Definition:a brown wading bird of marshes with an erratic flight pattern that makes it difficult for sportsmen to shoot
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"It was a bad shot from the right barrel," responded Stepan Arkadyevitch, loading his gun. "Sh… it's flying!"
The shrill whistles rapidly following one another were heard again. Two snipe, playing and chasing one another, and only whistling, not crying, flew straight at the very heads of the sportsmen. There was the report of four shots, and like swallows the snipe turned swift somersaults in the air and vanished from sight.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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a brace of palesmen with dundrearies, nooning toward Daly’s, fresh from snipehitting and mallardmissing on Rutland heath, exchanging cold sneers, mass-
James Joyce. Finnegans Wake (1939)
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At one dinner prepared for the king, her chef served a pheasant consommé, a ragout of snipe, poached chicken in a cream and butter sauce, roasted chicken with watercress salad, crayfish in Sauternes, and peach ice and strawberries in marachino washed down by a liqueur made of green walnuts.
Thomas J. Craughwell. Thomas Jefferson's Crème Brûlée, p.65 (2012)
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