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

Thereupon the bird made answer, And the fieldfare answered chirping:70 'Brilliant is the day in summer, But a maiden's lot is brighter.

From Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes by Kirby, W. F. (William Forsell)

The moderns have seldom thought of raising game artificially; among the Romans, artificial raising was confined to the hare and fieldfare.

From Principles Of Political Economy by Lalor, John J. (John Joseph)

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)

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