half-roasted

• a word derived from roast.
  roast

  verb (used with object)

  to bake (meat or other food) uncovered, especially in an oven.

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half-roasted

The piano has been moved to the porch, and the menu travels memory lane with a Greek salad, saganaki, half-roasted chicken and Sagaponack steak.

From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2020

The scent of half-roasted coffee beans, normally one of my favorite smells, only stressed me out more.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2015

Fortunately, his style shines through almost every bar of such half-roasted chestnuts as Never on Sunday and I Left My Heart in San Francisco.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cakes we had, too, made of flour which had been half-roasted before it left Valparaiso.

From Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers by Gordon Stables

There were, in addition, baskets of mealy cakes, which Percy declared were more to the purpose than the tough half-roasted beef.

From Hendricks the Hunter The Border Farm, a Tale of Zululand by William Henry Giles Kingston

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