fleshmeat

plural fleshmeats · alternative flesh-meat

1. countabledateduncountableThe flesh of animals (excluding fish or invertebrates) used or prepared for food.

   a. 1529, John Skelton, Colyn Cloute, London: Richard Kele, c. 1545, some of you do eate / In lenton season fleshe mete

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   […] Fish may be mix’d with Flesh-meat, although all Physicians are against it: for certainly, the natural freshness and coldness of Fish, doth temper and allay the natural heat and saltness that is in Flesh-meat,

   1671, Margaret Cavendish, “The She-Anchoret”, in Natures Picture, London, Book 2, p. 574

   […] I had no Flesh-meat, and the Plague raged so violently among the Butchers, and Slaughter-Houses […] that it was not advisable, so much as to go over the Street to them.

   1722, Daniel Defoe, “A Journal of the Plague Year”, in et al., London: E. Nutt, page 92

   […] it seemed hard to be spunging on Jem, and taking a’ his flesh-meat money to buy bread for me and them as I ought to be keeping.

   1848, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 6, in Mary Barton, volume 1, London: Chapman and Hall, page 98

   “But how shall you cook it [the mutton]?” “Boil it, ’m. He never has flesh meat, not often that is, but when he does I boil it.”

   1923, Arnold Bennett, chapter 6, in Riceyman Steps, London: Cassell, page 115

   Synonyms: meat