Lexicographical Neighbors of Becasse
Literary usage of Becasse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Field Sports of France: Being a Practical View of Hunting, Shooting and by Roderic O'Connor (1847)
"... and would be exceedingly well worth stuffing and preserving when shot: the
following may be enumerated : la becasse ordinaire,or common woodcock; ..."
2. Beaumarchais and His Times: Sketches of French Society in the Eighteenth by Louis de Loménie (1857)
"I should wish that with all this grace She might have the wit of la becasse.
A certain taste for idleness With which Tonton is incessantly reproached Would ..."
3. Provincial Names and Folk Lore of British Birds by Charles Swainson (1885)
"Cf. becasse (France); Beccaccia (Italy). (c) Called Quis in Wiltshire. 2.
Arrival of the woodcock. The earliest come about the 20th of October ; hence the ..."
4. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1869)
"... under the name of the Poule rouge au bee de becasse, as living in the Island
of Mauritius at the beginning of the seventeenth century. ..."
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