capon

Example Sentences

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He’d be the person to ask what was going on with Buster Scruggs’ calculating capon, as playwright David Mamet explained to the New Yorker in 1993:

From Slate • Dec. 10, 2018

On second thought, this could be the year of the capon.

From Washington Post • Jan. 2, 2017

There were blancmanges of lobster and capon; of pike, carp and haddock.

From New York Times • Oct. 29, 2015

Bill occupied the kitchen, and invariably cooked a turkey at Thanksgiving and a capon at Christmas.

From Salon • Feb. 27, 2013

"You run if you want to eat tonight," he shouted, his promises of a plump crisp capon already forgotten.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin