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fleshmeat en · NOUN

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Etymology

From Old English flǣsċmete, equivalent to flesh + meat.

Meanings

1. (countable, dated, uncountable) The flesh of animals (excluding fish or invertebrates) used or prepared for food.
   • a. 1529, John Skelton, Colyn Cloute, London: Richard Kele, c. 1545, some of you do eate / In lenton season fleshe mete
   • “But how shall you cook it [the mutton]?” “Boil it, ’m. He never has flesh meat, not often that is, but when he does I boil it.” 1923, Arnold Bennett, chapter 6, in Riceyman Steps, London: Cassell, page 115:
   • […] it seemed hard to be spunging on Jem, and taking a’ his flesh-meat money to buy bread for me and them as I ought to be keeping. 1848, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 6, in Mary Barton, volume 1, London: Chapman and Hall, page 98:
   • […] I had no Flesh-meat, and the Plague raged so violently among the Butchers, and Slaughter-Houses […] that it was not advisable, so much as to go over the Street to them. 1722, Daniel Defoe, “A Journal of the Plague Year”, in et al., London: E. Nutt, page 92:
   • […] Fish may be mix’d with Flesh-meat, although all Physicians are against it: for certainly, the natural freshness and coldness of Fish, doth temper and allay the natural heat and saltness that is in Flesh-meat, 1671, Margaret Cavendish, “The She-Anchoret”, in Natures Picture, London, Book 2, p. 574:

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Synonyms

meat