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Edible glands of an animal
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sweetbread
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"pancreas of an animal used as food" 1560s, from sweet (adj.); the -bread element may be from Old English bræd "flesh."
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sweetbread \Sweet"bread`\ (sw[=e]t"br[e^]d`), n. Either the thymus gland or the pancreas, the former being called neck sweetbread or throat sweetbread , the latter belly sweetbread . The sweetbreads of ruminants, esp. of the calf, are highly esteemed as ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ With talk of sweetbreads and liver and fillet she captivated him - I couldn't quite see how she did it.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. edible glands of an animal [syn: sweetbreads ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Sweetbreads or ris are culinary names for the thymus (also called throat, gullet, or neck sweetbread) or the pancreas (also called heart, stomach, or belly sweetbread), especially of calf ( ris de veau ) and lamb ( ris d'agneau ), and, less commonly, of ...
Usage examples of sweetbread.
Because of their acidity the leaves make a capital dressing with stewed lamb, veal, or sweetbread.
When the aspic is set, trim neatly, and arrange each round of sweetbread on a slice of chilled tomato.
Mother Sweetbread took up her quarters in Little Greece, and made him broths of game and wild herbs, and frumenty spiced with ginger, and, to quench his thirst, a gruel of barley mixed with her own sloeberry cordial.
Soft yellow lights, simple music from Mantovani, big black cigars, champagne, truffles, crepes suzettes, squab, wild rice, sweetbreads, saltimbocca, mushrooms and scampi alia casalinga.
Cantonetti was admirably foiled by the tournedos, and after by a curious savoury mess of sweetbreads and chicken liver, and it was not until the end of the third glass when Joseph was superintending the presentation of the flat oat biscuits and the little round red cheese of the Danubian plain that Campion noticed anything odd about himself.
Mother Sweetbread took up her quarters in Little Greece, and made him broths of game and wild herbs, and frumenty spiced with ginger, and, to quench his thirst, a gruel of barley mixed with her own sloeberry cordial.
Rissington, and about the time when Mother Sweetbread was bearing food and clothing down the hill, had come by way of Sherborne to the great heath which lined the highway between Witney and Gloucester, the main road to the west.
The alligators were receiving offal: loads of lights and ox-liver, sweetbreads and heart.
Johnson was in a cheerful humour, the exercise of walking had purified his blood, and at dinner he ate heartily of veal sweetbreads, and drank three or four glasses of Madeira wine.
The thymus glands, sweetbreads, are collected in a plastic bag until he has enough for a meal.
Pilotless, he drifts between occupied tables, at which dinner jackets and muchtoomuchjewelry are eating liver en brochette and breaded sweetbreads.
The men took turns dragging a cart piled with hampers of barley cakes, sweetbreads, cheese, roast mutton and kid, fruit conserves and other Island delicacies, while at its bottom, packed in snow, were casks of the Isle's dark bitter ale.
He made for the kitchens where weary drudges were preparing large pitchers of klah and trays of fruits and sweetbreads.
Pitt opted for ris de veau ou cervelles au beurre noir, sweetbreads in brown butter sauce served with baked mushroom caps stuffed with crab enhanced by a boiled artichoke with hollandaise sauce.
He had expected beef tea, or sweetbreads, the kinds of things invalids had pushed on them.