viand
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To say nothing of the baked horseflesh—by many gourmets esteemed a delectable dish—the corn of the mezcal, treated thus, is a viand palatable as peculiar.
From The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora by Reid, Mayne
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.
To provide something for breakfast besides, a viand rare and strange, but familiar to them, a branch of their tribe—the “Mezcaleros”—making it their staple food, even to deriving their tribal appellation from it.
From The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora by Reid, Mayne
Sov'reign solids of nature, Solar seeds of the sphere, Olympian viand Surprising as rare.
From Tablets by Alcott, Amos Bronson
Charqui is by no means a dainty viand; not nice either to the nose or palate.
From Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco by Tilney, F.C.
Vocabulary lists containing viand
Frankenstein
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