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
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
The prior, impressed by their devotion, gave them a flitch of bacon.
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
I also cut about three or four pounds off a flitch of bacon that hung in the chimney corner, nicely marked to prevent any being lost on account of my late allowanced state.
From The Autobiography of Sergeant William Lawrence A Hero of the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns by Nugent-Bankes, George
