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Meaning of minutal | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
[mɪˈnuː.taɫ]

Definitions

  1. minced meat, ground meat, mince
  2. trifles (petty things)
    declension-3, in-plural

Equivalents

Examples

“Servōrum ventrēs modiō castīgat inīquō ipse quoque ēsuriēns, neque enim omnia sustinet umquam mūcida caeruleī pānis cōnsūmere frūsta, hesternum solitus mediō servāre minūtal Septembrī nec nōn differre in tempora cēnae alterius conchem aestīvam cum parte lacertī signātam vel dīmidiō putrīque silūrō”

1881 translation by Lewis Evans While he is famishing himself, he pinches his servants' stomachs with the scantiest allowance, for he never endures to consume the whole of the blue fragments of mouldy bread, but saves, even in the middle of September, the mince of yesterday; and puts by till to-morrow's dinner the summer bean, with a piece of stockfish and half a stinking shad: and, after he has counted them, locks up the shreds of chopped leek.

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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