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outarde [< Cdn F < F "bustard"] 
n. a wild goose, especially the Canada goose.
See also: Canada goose
- 1791 (1911) I eat part of a metiffe, a bird between a wild goose (the outarde) and a tame one.
- 1825 The road is good on the ice from St. Ann's to Montreal --nevertheless the outarde has made its appearance: several, freshly killed, were exposed in our market this day.
- 1904 Our own Outarde revisits well-known haunts,/And the loud quack rings out anew from sea to shore.
- 1959 Eastern Canada Goose . . . [is also called] outarde (Spelled also oultarde, outard, outarte = bustard. Early use Cartier,1535 fide Ganong, 1910. This name was applied by early French explorers to a New World bird that reminded them of the great bustard of Europe; however, the two birds are only superficially alike, are unrelated, and have entirely different habits. Nfld., Que.). . . .
- 1791 (1911) I eat part of a metiffe, a bird between a wild goose (the outarde) and a tame one.