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partridge

[pahr-trij] / ˈpɑr trɪdʒ /




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Schwarzman, who usually arrives by helicopter, also bought the farm next door to host pheasant and partridge shoots.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 2, 2025

It described the deaths as a “national disgrace” and blamed the majority of incidents on rogue gamekeepers trying to protect stocks of pheasant, partridge and grouse on countryside shooting estates.

From BBC Oct. 22, 2024

One X user wrote they were “glad that olivia rodrigo and louis partridge are finally dating people their age and not weirdos in their late twenties who think it’s okay to date teens.”

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 15, 2023

On the first day of Christmas, it will set shoppers back $280.18 to buy a partridge in a pear tree for their true love — a 25.8% increase from last year.

From Washington Times Dec. 23, 2022

Grandma, meanwhile, had finished a beautiful dance fan made of a partridge tail.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

From the passenger seat, I often spotted rabbits fleeing down dirt roads and scampering under bushes, many joined by red-legged partridges.

From The Wall Street Journal May 30, 2026

Weeks later, the disease was again confirmed at a commercial gamebird premises near Wrexham, containing more than 20,000 pheasants and partridges.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2025

The royal family’s 20,000-acre country estate in Norfolk, where Queen Elizabeth II enjoyed spending Christmas and shooting partridges.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 11, 2023

From a reliable producer of affordably priced, good quality wine comes this new line, called “Chac Chac” for the mating call of partridges.

From Washington Post Aug. 25, 2022

She spotted him coming out of barbershops with windows the color of coal dust, from tiny booths that sold partridges, from battered, open- fronted stores packed with old tires piled from floor to ceiling.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini




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