cabrito en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish cabrito (“kid”).
Meanings
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(uncountable) Meat from a young goat; kid.
Consuela and Sullivan had been cooking all night so there was plenty of beef and cabrito.
2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 116:Mr. Dean O. Smith, who is the game warden in the Dripping Springs area, barbecues the cabrito for us, and what a treat that is! Cabrito is a very young Spanish goat between one and a half and two years old.
2001, Mary Faulk Koock, The Texas Cookbook: From Barbecue to Banquet-- An Informal View of Dining and Entertaining the Texas Way, page 65:Mutton rivaled beef in prominence until this century, and cabrito, or kid, remains a major food in Nuevo León.
1995, Cheryl Alters Jamison, Bill Jamison, The Border Cookbook: Authentic Home Cooking of the American Southwest and Northern Mexico, page 223: