Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The European snipe, Gallinago media.
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Colonel, now joyous over his "becassine aux truffes" and Chambertin, the meagre details he has of the death of the man who fell in the intoxicating hour of victory on fierce Hood's fiercest field.
The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance Richard Savage 1874
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