Sweetbread
['swiːtbred]
Definition
(n.) Either the thymus gland or the pancreas, the former being called neck, / throat, sweetbread, the latter belly sweetbread. The sweetbreads of ruminants, esp. of the calf, are highly esteemed as food. See Pancreas, and Thymus.
(n.) The pancreas.
Edited by Hugh
Examples
- After some discussion on the relative merits of veal-cutlet, sweetbread, and lobster, a decision was pronounced in favour of veal-cutlet. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Whom she meant, she did not say; but she could scarcely have meant the sweetbread. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- She apportioned the sweetbreads, jellies, chickens; their quantity and order. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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