gibbier

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English

Etymology

From French gibier.

Noun

gibbier

  1. (obsolete) wildfowl; game
    • 1705, J Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: Jacob Tonson, , →OCLC:
      The fowl and gibbier are tax-free.
    • 1787, John Adams, A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States:
      The bread muſt ſoon be of the fineſt wheat; poultry and gibbier must be added to beef and mutton

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