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flesh-meat
Flesh (as opposed to fish and vegetables) as an article of food; also pl. various kinds of food consisting of flesh.
In some northern dialects applied to ‘butchers' meat as opposed to bacon or pork’.
c1020Laws Cnut §47 Ȝyt wyrse þæt man mid flæsc-mete hine sylfne afyle [riht fæsten-tide]. a1154O.E. Chron. an. 1131 Þa scyrte ða flesc mete. c1394P. Pl. Crede 13 Wednes-day ich wyke wiþ-outen flech-mete. 1564Child Marriages (E.E.T.S.) 200 They made an end of flesh meat that night for that weke. 1698J. Keill Exam. Th. Earth (1734) 213 Who seldom tast any Flesh-meats. 1848Secret Soc. Mid. Ages, Templars 254 They had flesh-meat but three times a week, unless when festival-days occurred.
attrib.1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 419 His health requires a flesh-meat diet. |