flitch
Example Sentences
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Laura Cohen, acted as bearer of the flitch, a role that only men have done previously.
From BBC • Jul. 13, 2024
Desmond and Minette Carter are among the far-flung flitch winners, having travelled to Essex from Detroit in 2022.
From BBC • Jul. 13, 2024
The prior, impressed by their devotion, gave them a flitch of bacon.
From BBC • Jul. 13, 2024
The speaker is a remarkable man, a "rangy, gangling flitch" who broods away his days in the company of the "fops and fools of the coffeehouses" of 17th century London.
From Time Magazine Archive
A few luxuries were mentioned such as a flitch of bacon, cheese and oil.
From Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century by Jester, Annie Lash
