fieldfare

American  

[feeld-fair] / ˈfildˌfɛər /

noun

1. a European thrush, Turdus pilaris, having reddish-brown plumage with an ashy head and a blackish tail.

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fieldfare British  

/ ˈfiːldˌfɛə /

noun

1. a large Old World thrush, Turdus pilaris , having a pale grey head and rump, brown wings and back, and a blackish tail

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Etymology

Origin of fieldfare

before 1100; Middle English feldefare (with two f 's by alliterative assimilation), Old English feldeware perhaps, field dweller

Example Sentences

To be honest at first I was more excited about a picture I’d taken earlier, which I had thought was a fieldfare – a type of thrush.

From The Guardian • Dec. 20, 2015

The bitter north wind drives even the wild fieldfare to the berries in the garden hedge; so it drives stray human creatures to the door.

From Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Jefferies, Richard

In Chaucer's "Romaunt of the Rose," we find the poet using the expression, "Farewel fieldfare," a valediction on summer friends that, like the wild and migratory fieldfare, take to themselves wings and depart.

From Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources by Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward)

Flocks of crazy, distracted birds flew close by in great numbers, for the most part finches and larks, with here and there a fieldfare or two, their breasts and underwings buff colour.

From 'Murphy' A Message to Dog Lovers by Gambier-Parry, Ernest

Was not Tenant, when a boy, mistaken? did he not find a missel-thrush’s nest, and take it for the nest of a fieldfare?

From The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 by Morley, Henry