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butchery

[booch-uh-ree] / ˈbʊtʃ ə ri /


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Kakuta's restaurant has its own butchery, supplying bear meat dishes to a nearby hotel.

From Barron's Dec. 24, 2025

The building’s large main kitchen accommodates multiple classes, among them production baking and butchery.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2025

It was there that I came to see the possibilities in a robust whole-animal butchery program and a more radical approach to sourcing ingredients.

From Salon Feb. 4, 2025

Signs of butchery on the bones, along with stone tools and other evidence, indicate that Taguatagua 3 represents a temporary camp established around the task of processing the large carcass.

From Science Daily May 22, 2024

It was pleasant to think that men still sang, even in the midst of butchery and famine.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

Bennett-Parker said she researched some of Mused’s 14 other butcheries, calling neighbors and even visiting Philadelphia.

From Washington Post Mar. 27, 2019

Horse-eating, or hippophagy, became popular in Europe in the 19th century, when famines caused several governments to license horse butcheries.

From Slate Oct. 24, 2011

We hold back from the leap of despair that would let us see that human society always carries within it the capacity to commit such butcheries and think well of itself.

From Time Magazine Archive

So, with sheeps' innards not exactly standard fare in the butcheries of Brazil, I packed two haggis in my luggage when returning from a Christmas vacation in Scotland, and began planning the big event.

From Time Magazine Archive

The populace, who gathered their very considerable profit from these butcheries, naturally encouraged such an excess of devotion.

From Saint Augustin by Vincent O'Sullivan




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