Venison
['venɪs(ə)n;'venɪz(ə)n] or ['vɛnəsn]
Definition
(n.) Beasts of the chase.
(n.) Formerly, the flesh of any of the edible beasts of the chase, also of game birds; now, the flesh of animals of the deer kind exclusively.
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Definition
n. the flesh of animals taken in hunting esp. the deer.
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Examples
- The venison was roasted to a turn--and everybody said they never saw so fat a haunch. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- They said to each other, it is a spirit that perhaps has smelt our broiling venison, and wishes to eat of it: let us offer some to her. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Edward answers by fresh assurances of secrecy, and again urges on him the necessity of procuring some venison. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- That object is, to be fed on turtle soup and venison with a gold spoon. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Did I consume the venison at once and with haste, as if Esau's shaft flew every day? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- You'll find a neck of venison, and no questions asked. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- You don't expect to be set up in a coach and six, and to be fed on turtle soup and venison, with a gold spoon, as a good many of 'em do! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- There was a venison pasty, of all things, a large broad-faced cut ham, eggs and cresses and red beet-root, and medlars and apple-tart, and tea. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I see traces of the turtle soup, and venison, and gold spoon in this. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Now, they're not a-going—none of 'em—ever to be fed on turtle soup and venison with a gold spoon. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The King of Sherwood, he said, grudges his venison and his wine-flask to the King of England? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- As cattle are among the first, so perhaps venison is among the last parts of this sort of rude produce which bring this price. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- And there we'll dine--it will be but doe-venison, if we can get it at all--and then I'll take my nap while you go out and see old friends. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I understand thee, said the King, and the Holy Clerk shall have a grant of vert and venison in my woods of Warncliffe. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- He means turtle soup and venison, with a gold spoon, and that he wants to be set up with a coach and six. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
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