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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
ortolan /ˈɔːt(ə)lən/ (also ortolan bunting)

▶noun a small songbird formerly eaten as a delicacy, the male having an olive-green head and yellow throat. [Emberiza hortulana.]

– origin C16: from Fr., from Provençal, lit. ‘gardener’.

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