Meaning

(dated) The flesh of animals (excluding fish or invertebrates) used or prepared for food..

Example Sentences

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

[…] 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,

[…] 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.

[…] 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.

“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.”

Word Forms

• fleshmeats
• flesh-meat

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