flitch
Example Sentences
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Fitzwalter revealed his true identity and gave his land to the priory on the condition a flitch should be awarded to any couple who could claim they were similarly devoted.
From BBC • Jul. 13, 2024
Desmond and Minette Carter are among the far-flung flitch winners, having travelled to Essex from Detroit in 2022.
From BBC • Jul. 13, 2024
Laura Cohen, acted as bearer of the flitch, a role that only men have done previously.
From BBC • Jul. 13, 2024
The speaker is a remarkable man, a "rangy, gangling flitch" who broods away his days in the company of the "fops and fools of the coffeehouses" of 17th century London.
From Time Magazine Archive
The second tightens the skin in every part, contracts all the sinews and veins in the skin, makes the flitch a solider thing, and the skin a better protection to the meat.
From Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend by Cobbett, William
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
