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white-flesher
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a partridge-like game bird, Bonasa umbellus, occurring in many subspecies across Canada.
See: ruffed grouse
Quotations
1827
[I] killed a pair of White Fleshers and a hen of a different species.
1857
This afternoon we shot several of the ruffed grouse, which is called here the white flesher; its meat being as white as the breast of a fowl, while that of all the other grouse in the country is dark.
1956
Ruffed grouse [is also called] . . . white-flesher ("Keewatin," B.C.). . . .