capon
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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
Mr Hoover once described his ouster Mr Roosevelt as a "chameleon in plaid" while FDR called his predecessor a "fat, timid capon".
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2016
Bill occupied the kitchen, and invariably cooked a turkey at Thanksgiving and a capon at Christmas.
From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2013
"And I charge you to bring the prisoner a cup of wine and a nicely crisped capon, before he dies of hunger," Lannister said.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
“Isn’t it strange that the only people who eat capons are sixteenth-century courtiers and twenty-first-century Brooklyn hipsters?” a publisher in his thirties, at the Susan B. Anthony setting, observed as he chewed.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 21, 2018
The reburial of Richard's father was accompanied by three sung masses and a banquet where guests dined on capons, cygnets, herons and rabbits.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2013
The great cartoon fowls — Daffy Duck above all, of course, but also Donald and Daisy and Foghorn Leghorn and Henery Hawk — were capering capons safe from human predation.
From Time ● Oct. 31, 2013
Meanwhile, the years of superstardom were limited, because castrati tended to age badly: "Most of them become as big and fat as capons, with round and chubby hips, rumps, arms and throats."
From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2009
Nearer the door, the Queen’s Hand was attacking a brace of capons, sucking the meat off the bones and washing down each bite with ale.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
