Meanings (ES + gloss)
hortelano • papafigo
A small European migratory bunting (Emberiza hortulana), once eaten whole as a delicacy.
[…]the last flavor Mitterrand wished to savor belonged to the flesh of the endangered ortolan, a songbird the size of a human toe that is a crime to buy or hunt, and is certainly i…
[…]this taught him to consider Sophia as a most delicious morsel, indeed to regard her with the same desires which an ortolan inspires into the soul of an epicure.
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