Definitions for ortolan

ortolan or·to·lan

Spelling: [awr-tl-uh n]
IPA: /ˈɔr tl ən/

Ortolan is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 140 anagrams from letters in ortolan (alnoort).

Definitions for ortolan

noun

  1. an Old World bunting, Emberiza hortulana, esteemed as a table delicacy.
  2. the bobolink.

Origin of ortolan

1520-30; French Provençal: literally, gardener (i.e., frequenting gardens) Latin hortulānus, equivalent to hortul(us) little garden (hort(us) garden + -ulus -ule) + -ā

Examples for ortolan

Its food is rather nasty—water-slugs and the like,—but it is itself as fat as an ortolan, "almost melts in the hand."

The reed-bird—in the West Indies called “ortolan”—is also found in the same markets with the canvas-back.

But the youngster paid no attention to him, and kept up his ortolan notes.

ortolan (endorsed by Labbé) argues (work cited, p. 31) that populus plebsque no more implies separation than senatus populusque.

The ortolan Bunting, Emberiza hortulana, and some others, are fattened for the table in 191 five or six days.

The ortolan is not famed for its song, which is, however, soft and sweet.

In the house they must be treated in the same manner as the ortolan.

There is, however, some consolation for the rarity of the ortolan in England.

The cage of the young bird was near that of an ortolan, a European bird noted as a singer, and a common cage-bird.

Farther, he would give Monsieur an ortolan in a vine leaf, and a dish of stewed sorrel.

Word Value for ortolan
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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