Lexicographical Neighbors of Beccaficos
Literary usage of Beccaficos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. My Travels: A Series of Conversations with a Younger Sister, After Returning (1837)
"E. In Smyrna, the Franks find and shoot the little birds called beccaficos; this
name is common to all small birds; it signifies "fig-peckers;" but there is ..."
2. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1866)
"The passage in Aristotle may be thus freely translated :— " And in like manner
beccaficos and black-cape, for these too are changed into each ..."
3. The Digressions of V.: Written for His Own Fun and that of His Friends by Elihu Vedder (1910)
"Here I am reminded (the whole book is but a reminder) of the old man turning the
spit of beccaficos for others to eat, and I somewhat sadly yield the ..."
4. Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures, Explain'd and Exemplify'd in by John Arbuthnot (1727)
"beccaficos. Two forts of Shell-fifti, of which the purple Dye was made. At Supper.
Dugs of a Hog. Boar's Cheek. ..."
5. "Bobbo" and Other Fancies by Thomas Isaac Wharton (1897)
"killing the birds was a danger to the figs, which would thus be left a prey to
the worms which were the beccaficos' food. " For observe," he said, ..."
6. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1835)
"And, in like manner, beccaficos and black-caps, for these too are changed into
each other. The bird is a becca- fico at the commencement of autumn, ..."
7. Cyprus as I Saw it in 1879 by Samuel White Baker (1879)
"The vineyards at this season are swarming with a species of beccaficos, and the
population are busy in catching these delicious birds with sticks smeared ..."
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