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MUTTON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Meat from a mature domestic sheep
Synonyms:
mouton; mutton
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("mutton" is a kind of...):
meat (the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food)
Holonyms ("mutton" is a part of...):
domestic sheep; Ovis aries (any of various breeds raised for wool or edible meat or skin)
Context examples:
So it proved;—for when happily released from Mr. Elton, and seated by Mr. Weston, at dinner, he made use of the very first interval in the cares of hospitality, the very first leisure from the saddle of mutton, to say to her, We want only two more to be just the right number.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
And it all ended, at last, in his telling Henry one morning that when he next went to Woodston, they would take him by surprise there some day or other, and eat their mutton with him.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
I merely provided a pair of soles, a small leg of mutton, and a pigeon-pie.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Therefore Simpson becomes eliminated from the case, and our attention centres upon Straker and his wife, the only two people who could have chosen curried mutton for supper that night.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Nor did Meg miss any of the romance from the daily parting, when her husband followed up his kiss with the tender inquiry, "Shall I send some veal or mutton for dinner, darling?"
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
There were shoulders, legs, and loins, shaped like those of mutton, and very well dressed, but smaller than the wings of a lark.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
She had not advanced many yards from Mrs. Goddard's door, when she was met by Mr. Elton himself, evidently coming towards it, and as they walked on slowly together in conversation about the invalid—of whom he, on the rumour of considerable illness, had been going to inquire, that he might carry some report of her to Hartfield—they were overtaken by Mr. John Knightley returning from the daily visit to Donwell, with his two eldest boys, whose healthy, glowing faces shewed all the benefit of a country run, and seemed to ensure a quick despatch of the roast mutton and rice pudding they were hastening home for.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Alleyne passed him swiftly by, for he had learned from the monks to have no love for the wandering friars, and, besides, there was a great half-gnawed mutton bone sticking out of his pouch to prove him a liar.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Grant to eat his mutton with him the next day; and Fanny had barely time for an unpleasant feeling on the occasion, when Mrs. Grant, with sudden recollection, turned to her and asked for the pleasure of her company too.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Meanwhile he took the mutton off the gridiron, and gravely handed it round.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
