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house-lamb
1. A lamb kept in or near the house; a pet lamb; a lamb kept and fattened for the table.
1574Hellowes Gueuara's Fam. Ep. (1584) 141 So quiet and so gentle, as if it had beene a house lambe brought up by hand. 1826in Cobbett Rur. Rides (1885) II. 193 The house-lambs and the early Easter-lambs. 1848Dickens Dombey xxv, Mild and placid as a house-lamb.
2. The flesh of such a lamb used as food.
1727Philip Quarll (1816) 30 It eat as delicious as house lamb. 1827Mrs. Rundell Dom. Cookery ii. 32 House-lamb may be had in great towns almost all the year. |