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BREAST OF VEAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does breast of veal mean? 

BREAST OF VEAL (noun)
  The noun BREAST OF VEAL has 1 sense:

1. usually stuffed and roastedplay

  Familiarity information: BREAST OF VEAL used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BREAST OF VEAL (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Usually stuffed and roasted

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("breast of veal" is a kind of...):

roast veal; veal roast (cut of veal suitable for roasting)


 Context examples 


The second course was two ducks trussed up in the form of fiddles; sausages and puddings resembling flutes and hautboys, and a breast of veal in the shape of a harp.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)



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