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thrusca

thrusca [ME thrushe < AS þrysce], kind of songbird, throstle, thrush. dulce pelora sonat, quam dicunt nomine troscam [Trevisa: þrostel] / sed fugiente die illa quieta manet Higd. I 25 (recte 24) p. 236; 1338 coquina: ‥ in iiij ploveres, ij whitecokes vj d., in thruchis j d. Ac. Ep. Bath. 117; 1338 coquina: ‥ in ix thrucis iij d. Ib. 142.

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