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单词 sarcelle
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sarcellen.

Brit. /sɑːˈsɛl/, U.S. /sɑrˈsɛl/
Forms: Also Middle English cercelle, Middle English sorcell (?), 1500s sarcell.
Etymology: < Old French cercelle (13th cent.), modern French sarcelle = Provençal sercela (compare medieval Latin cercella, Higden) < popular Latin *cercedula-, for classical Latin querquedula.
A name for the teals and closely allied ducks (e.g. the garganey, the long-tailed duck).
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a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 371 In Lagenia is a ponde; þere is Seynt Colman his briddes; þe briddes beeþ i-cleped cercelles.
c1450 Two Cookery-bks. 79 Take a Sorcell or a tele, and breke his necke.
1513 Bk. Kernynge (W. de W.) B j b Take a sarcell or a teele, and reyse his wynges.
1793 J. Leslie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Birds IX. 217 The Sarcelles, which we cannot better paint in general terms than by saying, that they are ducks much smaller than the others.1793 J. Leslie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Birds IX. 240 The White and Black Sarcelle; or, the Nun.1793 J. Leslie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Birds IX. 243 The Brown and White Sarcelle.1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. a1818 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XIV. 266/2.
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