Definition of Houdan

1. a type of domestic fowl [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Houdan

hotting
hottings
hottish
hotty
hotwalker
hotwalkers
hotwash
hotwire
hotwired
hotwires
hotwiring
hotwives
houdah
houdahs
houdan (current term)
houdans
houf
houfed
houff
houffed
houffing
houffs
houfing
houfs
hough
houghed
houghing
houghs
houhere

Literary usage of Houdan

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Poultry Culture: How to Raise, Manage, Mate and Judge Thoroughbred Fowls by Isaac Kimbal Felch (1902)
"Now have we not in the Light Brahma, Dark Brahma, Cochin, Hamburg, houdan, Game, Spanish and Dorking, fowls as deserving the title thoroughbred as any of ..."

2. Principles and Practice of Poultry Culture by John Henry Robinson (1912)
"The houdan is in appearance a black-and-white mottled, bearded Polish, ... The Mantes has the mottled plumage of the houdan, lacks the fifth toe, ..."

3. The Poultry Book: Comprising the Breading and Management of Profitable and by William Bernhard Tegetmeier (1867)
"A few statistics of this trade in the neighbourhood of houdan will give a correct ... At the markets of houdan, Dreux, and Nogent-le-Soi, there are sold ..."

4. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1867)
"Highly Commended, FY Gilbert (houdan ; Hon. ... Commended, F. W Pirn (houdan) ; JC Perry (houdan) ; FY Gilbert (houdan); JC Cooper (houdan and Malay). ..."

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