cockfight
Americannoun
noun
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Origin of cockfight
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A 1770 cockfight between Revolutionary patriot Timothy Matlack of Philadelphia and a Loyalist New Yorker, James DeLancey, ended in a brawl that carried more political overtones than today’s Phillies-Mets melees.
From Slate • Jan. 2, 2018
The site of the cockfight was a dirt path in the ravine aptly known as the Barranca del Muerto.
From The Guardian • Nov. 11, 2015
Squaring up for a light-hearted cockfight with the admiral on his column, Fritsch's sculpture is a strutting Napoleon giving Nelson the bird.
From The Guardian • Jul. 25, 2013
And his camera tends to linger: on a cockfight, a pair of lonely women in pageant costumes dancing, on a 10-year-old boy blowing fire at stoplights for small change.
From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2011
Heralds cried his name and deeds for all to hear, and the noble knights and highborn ladies cheered as lustily as cutthroats at a cockfight.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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