Meanings
plural beefstews
- alternativeAlternative form of beef stew.
The main dishes, for example, always offer some beefstews and steak—poultry, fish, variety cuts , and then something different: rabbit, goose, or lamb.
1979, The Virginia Quarterly Review - Volume 55, page 1922 more examples
As other cattlemen followed him and settled there, Mason Valley became the main source of supply for the beefsteaks and beefstews for the Virginia City miners.
1946, Nevada Highways and Parks, page 5Beefstews and lamb stews and more dried fruits were good too, they admitted, and they also agreed to admit a few new cells from time to time to each body group via the cabbage slaw and lettuce route.
1956, C. Wesley Kaufman, Solution to Juvenile Delinquency, page 106
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