“sarcelle”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

sarcelle

释义

sarcelle|sɑːˈsɛl|
Also 4 cercelle, 5 sorcell (?), 6 sarcell.
[a. OF. cercelle (13th c.), mod.F. sarcelle = Pr. sercela (cf. med.L. cercella, Higden):—pop. L. *cercedula-, for class. L. querquedula.]
A name for the teals and closely allied ducks (e.g. the garganey, the long-tailed duck).
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 371 In Lagenia is a ponde; þere is Seynt Colman his briddes; þe briddes beeþ i-cleped cercelles.c1450Two Cookery-bks. 79 Take a Sorcell or a tele, and breke his necke.1513Bk. Kernynge (W. de W.) B j b, Take a sarcell or a teele, and reyse his wynges.
1793tr. Buffon's Nat. Hist. Birds IX. 217 The Sarcelles, which we cannot better paint in general terms than by saying, that they are ducks much smaller than the others.Ibid. 240 The White and Black Sarcelle; or, the Nun.Ibid. 243 The Brown and White Sarcelle.1802Montagu Ornith. Dict.1818–22Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XIV. 266/2.

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