capon
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On second thought, this could be the year of the capon.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 2, 2017
Tell her you want her to know now that a capon will do for her Thanksgiving because the rest of you will be enjoying the turkey elsewhere, thankful you’re out of grandma’s sight.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2015
Bill occupied the kitchen, and invariably cooked a turkey at Thanksgiving and a capon at Christmas.
From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2013
Sixty-nine dignitaries enjoyed a lavish spread featuring 12 courses, including eggs stuffed with foie gras, turtle soup and Sussex capon.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2012
He ate little, Hotah observed: a spoon of soup, a bite of the pepper, the leg off a capon, some fish.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
“Isn’t it strange that the only people who eat capons are sixteenth-century courtiers and twenty-first-century Brooklyn hipsters?” a publisher in his thirties, at the Susan B. Anthony setting, observed as he chewed.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 21, 2018
The reburial of Richard's father was accompanied by three sung masses and a banquet where guests dined on capons, cygnets, herons and rabbits.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2013
The great cartoon fowls — Daffy Duck above all, of course, but also Donald and Daisy and Foghorn Leghorn and Henery Hawk — were capering capons safe from human predation.
From Time ● Oct. 31, 2013
Meanwhile, the years of superstardom were limited, because castrati tended to age badly: "Most of them become as big and fat as capons, with round and chubby hips, rumps, arms and throats."
From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2009
He says he can see a bunch of pom-pom-covered capons jumping up and down.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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