pheasant under glass

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   a dish of roast pheasant served in a manner characteristic of expensive restaurants

   Broaderdish

Questions about pheasant under glass

What does pheasant under glass mean?

pheasant under glass means "a dish of roast pheasant served in a manner characteristic of expensive restaurants".

Is pheasant under glass a common word?

pheasant under glass is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.