a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer (Hunterian) (1891) l. 7048 Or but we [read he] wole do come in haste Roo venysoun bake in paste.
1829 W. Scott (new ed.) I. xii. 122 (note) The learned in cookery..hold the roe venison dry and indifferent food.
1904 A. I. Shand iv. 65 Eggs and roe-venison were precisely on the same footing.
2004 H. Fearnley-Whittingstall viii. 175 The best butchers in Dorset regularly have roe venison in stock.