Orpington

[ awr-ping-tuh n ]

/ ˈɔr pɪŋ tən /

one of a breed of large, white-skinned chickens.

Origin of Orpington

First recorded in 1890–95; after Orpington, town in Kent, England

The deafness of dear Violet Orpington sometimes spoiled this game.

Marge Askinforit |Barry Pain
A visitor, driving from Orpington to Down, told the cabman to go faster.

Charles Darwin: His Life in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters |Charles Darwin
Then throw away the bees and lay the stings gently but firmly on a mash composed of the breasts of five Buff Orpington cockerels.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, May 16, 1917. |Various
The Orpington—Jonah, Norah called him—was not inclined to race.

A Little Bush Maid |Mary Grant Bruce

He called his new breed the Orpington, giving it the name of the town in which he lived.

Our Domestic Birds |John H. Robinson

Orpington ¹

/ (ˈɔːpɪŋtən) /

a heavy breed of domestic fowl of various single colours, laying brown eggs

a breed of brown duck with an orange bill

Orpington ²

/ (ˈɔːpɪŋtən) /

a district of SE London, part of the Greater London borough of Bromley from 1965