beccaficos

Spain; and in the "Fiendulae," to the "sellers of beccaficos," a delicate bird, and the inhabitants of Ficculae, a town near Rome.

The Captiva and the Mostellaria Titus Maccius Plautus 1847

Although we may not breakfast on bridecake and beccaficos, yet is a neat's tongue better than a fox's tail; and I have ever held a bottle of

Vivian Grey Benjamin Disraeli 1842

And here he apparently digresses from his subject for the sake of mentioning the Emperor _Geta_, 'who distributed the several courses of his meats by the _first letters of the meats_ themselves, where those that began with _B_ were served up together; _as_ brawn, beef, beccaficos, and so of the others.'

The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Delia Bacon 1835

It is mountainous, inclosed with very high hills; its soil is of the richest, so that birds which come thither to feed, if they tarry but three months, grow so very fat and weighty, that they cannot fly back again over the mountains, but suffer themselves to be taken up in the hand, and are as delicious as the ortolan or the beccaficos of the Italians.

Ideal Commonwealths Tommaso Campanella 1603

_ "tisauras" _ with long scissors-like tails, looking like detached flowers which the wind blew from branch to branch; blackbirds, with orange plumage bound with brown; golden-edged beccaficos; and

Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon Jules Verne 1866