capon
Example Sentences
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Inside the Marché Beauvau, the Marché d’Aligre’s historic covered market, featuring higher-quality butchers, fishmongers, and cheese and poultry sellers, shoppers were eyeing capon, oysters and truffles for the holidays.
From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2021
It may have started with the cockentrice, a monstrosity made by stitching together the head and upper torso of a pig with a capon, found on feast menus from the fifteenth century.
From Salon • Nov. 16, 2021
He’d be the person to ask what was going on with Buster Scruggs’ calculating capon, as playwright David Mamet explained to the New Yorker in 1993:
From Slate • Dec. 10, 2018
On second thought, this could be the year of the capon.
From Washington Post • Jan. 2, 2017
He found her in the high seat of die Starks, ripping a capon apart with her fingers.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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