viand
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Salmon is as nice when it is a shilling a pound as when it is four times that price, and venison is by no means an expensive viand if the market be watched.
From Household Organization by Florence Caddy
The extraordinary taste which finds pleasure in eating this sour meat is little less remarkable than the strange way in which the viand is prepared.
From Suppers Novel Suggestions for Social Occasions by Paul Pierce
I liked pie, but not pudding; the rich, heavy fruit-cake of weddings, good, honest gingerbread, the brisk, crispy heat of the brittle ginger-snap, but not "plain cake,"—absurd viand!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 by Various
"Viand" comes no doubt from "victus"—that which nourishes and sustains life: from victus was formed viventia; from viventa, "viand."
From A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" by Fran?ois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
As to the orphans, those young ladies sat side by side, and nudged each other when the sacrificial knife was plunged into any fresh viand, and discoursed together every now and then in rapturous whispers.
From The Doctor's Wife by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
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Frankenstein
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