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

A large species of sea-eel, furnishing a somewhat vile viand, but eatable when strongly curried.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

The favourites with the writer are a brave old soldier p. viand his helpmate, an ancient gentlewoman who sold apples, and a strange kind of wandering man and his wife.

From Lavengro The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest by Borrow, George Henry

The others did not join him in this singular viand, although the shikarree assured them that tiger-beef was far superior to the venison of the sambur deer.

From The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains by Reid, Mayne

With a skillful rotary finger he removed the viand, and brought down the house by calmly taking up his lines as if nothing had happened.

From Washington Irving by Boynton, Henry Walcott