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Definition of Beccafico
1. n. A small bird. (Silvia hortensis), which is highly prized by the Italians for the delicacy of its flesh in the autumn, when it has fed on figs, grapes, etc.
Definition of Beccafico
1. [n -COS]
Medical Definition of Beccafico
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Origin: It, fr. Beccare to peck + fico fig.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beccafico
Literary usage of Beccafico
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gleanings in natural history by Edward Jesse (1835)
"I have been assured on the authority of a respectable clergyman residing near
Worthing in Sussex, that the beccafico annually visits the fig orchard near ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The true beccafico is said to be what is known in England as the Garden-Warbler (the
... The " beccafico," however, is not as a rule artificially fattened, ..."
3. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"[beccafico.] The whole of tho upper parts is oil-green, with a shade of ash-gray ;
on each side of the lower part of the neck is a patch of ash-gray; ..."
4. Our native songsters by Anne Pratt (1852)
"It is the true beccafico of the Italians, so celebrated as a luxurious food. Mr.
Broderip quotes an enthusiastic eulogy of this species from " the Professor ..."
5. The Art of Entertaining by Mary Elizabeth Wilson Sherwood (1892)
"We eat more like Heliogabalus than like that gourmet who took the beccafico out
of the olive which had been hidden in the pigeon, which had in its turn been ..."
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