flitch
Example Sentences
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The prior, impressed by their devotion, gave them a flitch of bacon.
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
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 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
Hard is the lesson I am set to learn in school, because of a flitch of bacon.
From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Mason, Eugene
