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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

After six seasons, five Christmas specials, three movies and a partridge in a pear tree, this is the end, until the next time writer and creator Julian Fellowes is struck with inspiration.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2025

"Unfortunately we do not have that in the rest of the UK. We need to see wider licensing particularly for grouse moors in England and pheasant and partridge shooting in the lowlands of the UK."

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2024

While many cultures and individuals still preferred slender women and muscular men, others idealized being "plump as a partridge" as indicative of both health and wealth.

From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2022

He raced in circles around the tractor, a habit he had picked up years ago when my father would plow or mow and sometimes flush quail or partridge hidden in the field.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien

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

It was in these woods, just outside Glacier National Park, that the teenage boys learned to hunt, fish, dress a deer and pick birdshot from Hungarian partridges.

From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2023

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

"Our great Hippocrates, the father of medicine, says that a bellyful is bad, and if it is a bellyful of partridges, it is worse."

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios


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