abattoir
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Abattoir labour shortages are being blamed on Brexit and the Covid pandemic.
From BBC • Oct. 6, 2021
No one was arrested or charged after 19 activists invaded the Carey Bros Abattoir near Warwick before dawn on Monday.
From The Guardian • Apr. 8, 2019
Robert F Kennedy Peter Sellers Henry Mancini Kitchen Whisky Abattoir What has a priest banned from a church hall because it was "not compatible" with the Catholic faith?
From BBC • Sep. 28, 2012
Beneath that cow is a 410-seat temporary theater and a private bar called the Abattoir.
From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2011
Here, in a sufficiently dismantled space is the Abattoir of Montmartre, covering nearly nine acres of ground, surrounded by a high wall, and looking from the outside like a cavalry barrack.
From Reprinted Pieces by Dickens, Charles
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