gibiern.
Now rare.
Game; wildfowl.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > thing hunted or game > [noun]
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1514 in W. Jerdan Rutland Papers (1842) 27 Item, iiij pieces of gibier or wildfowle, that is to say, ij perdryches and ij..woodcoks, and at some tyme other gybier.
1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 209 The Fowl and Gibbier are Tax free.
1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham I. xix. 144 An excellent restaurateur's..where one gets irreproachable gibier, and meets no English.
1872 Earl of Pembroke & G. H. Kingsley South Sea Bubbles v. 129 A small whistling parrot, with a purple back and white throat, which I am told is the king's favourite gibier.
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