fleshmeat

Definitions

The flesh of animals (excluding fish or invertebrates) used or prepared for food.

countable, dated, uncountable

Examples

“a. 1529, John Skelton, Colyn Cloute, London: Richard Kele, c. 1545, some of you do eate / In lenton season fleshe mete”

“[…] Fish⟳ may be mix’d with Flesh-meat, although all Physicians are against it: for certainly, the natural freshness and coldness of Fish⟳, doth temper and allay the natural heat and saltness that is in Flesh-meat,”

“[…] I had no Flesh-meat, and the Plague raged so violently among the Butchers, and Slaughter-Houses […] that it was not advisable, so much as to go over the Street to them.”

“[…] it seemed hard to be spunging on Jem, and taking a’ his flesh-meat money to buy⟳ bread for me and them as I ought to be keeping.”

““But how shall you cook⟳ it [the mutton]?” “Boil it, ’m. He never has flesh meat, not often that is, but when he does I boil it.””

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