viand

Example Sentences

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Not until one has tried does one realize to what excellence and variety this form of viand lends itself.

From Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society by Cooke, Maud C.

At that time he preferred serving food to being a viand for those who gormandized oddities.

From An Apostate: Nawin of Thais by Sills, Steven (Steven David Justin)

For if all this praise is to be lavished on plain, fresh, immature, roast pig, what adjectives shall we find to do justice to that riper, richer, more subtle and sustaining viand, broiled bacon?

From Days Off And Other Digressions by Van Dyke, Henry

The viand is said to get its name from the French phrase a barbe d' ecu, from tail to head, signifying that the carcass was cooked whole.

From Dishes & Beverages of the Old South by McCulloch-Williams, Martha

The supper chamber in Chiari was most sumptuously laid out,—vermicelli soup, flesh, fowls, cheese, pastry, wine,—every viand, in short, that could tempt the appetite.

From Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge by Wylie, James Aitken