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kitchen midden en · NOUN

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1. An ancient refuse heap composed primarily of domestic waste from daily meals, such as animal bones, mollusc shells, charcoal, and broken tools.
   • The chief food of the people was evidently shell-fish, since great heaps of the shells had accumulated in the shallow water between the houses and the land, forming a regular "kitchen-midden" for the exploration of some future archeologist. 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 358:

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