Etymology

chevaline

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Today it means: Horse meat. Full definition →

French viande chevaline
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The story

  1. French · borrowed fromviande chevaline“equine flesh”
  2. English todaychevaline

Clipped borrowing from French viande chevaline (“equine flesh”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.