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partridge

[pahr-trij] / ˈpɑr trɪdʒ /




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We indulge in not one but two meats: carrilleras, stewed pork cheeks with red peppers, and perdiz escabechada, cold partridge preserved in vinegar and herbs with a crisp salad.

From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025

Schwarzman, who usually arrives by helicopter, also bought the farm next door to host pheasant and partridge shoots.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2025

After six seasons, five Christmas specials, three movies and a partridge in a pear tree, this is the end, until the next time writer and creator Julian Fellowes is struck with inspiration.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2025

The organisation said that was because gamekeepers are trying to protect their grouse, pheasants and partridge - and the profits they bring.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2024

“To think I worried about that little bird. I might have known it would gobble up a nice fat partridge in no time.”

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

From the passenger seat, I often spotted rabbits fleeing down dirt roads and scampering under bushes, many joined by red-legged partridges.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026

Weeks later, the disease was again confirmed at a commercial gamebird premises near Wrexham, containing more than 20,000 pheasants and partridges.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2025

It was in these woods, just outside Glacier National Park, that the teenage boys learned to hunt, fish, dress a deer and pick birdshot from Hungarian partridges.

From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2023

The royal family’s 20,000-acre country estate in Norfolk, where Queen Elizabeth II enjoyed spending Christmas and shooting partridges.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2023

Its stomach had been stitched closed, and it was stuffed with partridges that in turn were stuffed with plums.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende


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