flitch
Example Sentences
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Desmond and Minette Carter are among the far-flung flitch winners, having travelled to Essex from Detroit in 2022.
From BBC • Jul. 13, 2024
Fitzwalter revealed his true identity and gave his land to the priory on the condition a flitch should be awarded to any couple who could claim they were similarly devoted.
From BBC • Jul. 13, 2024
Laura Cohen, acted as bearer of the flitch, a role that only men have done previously.
From BBC • Jul. 13, 2024
Almost three months of the wizened pay of the three-day week had been uncomfortable enough, but the strike that followed had nearly emptied the flour sack and gobbled up the last flitch of bacon.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The second tightens the skin in every part, contracts all the sinews and veins in the skin, makes the flitch a solider thing, and the skin a better protection to the meat.
From Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend by Cobbett, William