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The specific name hortulana is from the Italian name for this bird, ortolana. [2] The English ortolan is derived from Middle French hortolan, "gardener". [3] The ortolan is served in French cuisine, typically cooked and eaten whole. Traditionally diners cover their heads with their napkin or a towel while eating the delicacy.
Date: 1842: Source: Terry, Charles (1842). New Zealand: Its Advantages and Prospects, as a British Colony; with a Full Account of the Land Claims, Sales of Crown ...
HMS Britomart was a Cherokee-class brig-sloop launched in 1808. She participated in the capture of several small privateers and merchant vessels. She participated in the capture of several small privateers and merchant vessels.
Point Britomart (Māori: Te Rerenga Ora Iti) was a headland in the Waitematā Harbour, in Auckland (Tāmaki Makaurau), New Zealand. Located between Commercial Bay and Official Bay , [ 2 ] the point was later quarried away to produce fill for land reclamation in Mechanics Bay , and almost no physical trace remains at street level in what is ...
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Britomart Delivering Amoretta from the Enchantment of Busirane, Henry Fuseli (1824). The Faerie Queene was an extremely popular topic with artists.. Britomart Redeems Faire Amoret illustrates a scene from book III of The Faerie Queene, a 16th-century allegorical epic poem by Edmund Spenser, [15] in which Busirane, [B] an evil sorcerer, abducts the beautiful Amoret (representing married virtue ...
Britomart figures in Edmund Spenser's knightly epic The Faerie Queene, where she is an allegorical figure of the virgin Knight of Chastity, representing English virtue—in particular, English military power—through a folk etymology that associated Brit-, as in Briton, with Martis, here thought of as "of Mars", the Roman war god.