lamb's fry
Britishnoun
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lamb's offal, esp lamb's testicles, as food
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lamb's liver as food
Example Sentences
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The fry of the young seals we thought extremely good, not exceeded even by the finest lamb's fry.
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The club received him with transport, and held a harmonic meeting that evening in his honor; while Mrs. Micawber and I had a lamb’s fry in private, surrounded by the sleeping family.”
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Cut into neat slices a dish of lamb's fry, and fry it a nice brown in the bacon liquor.
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Therefore Dominus Hyacinthus de Archangelis, Procurator of the Poor, shall make his ingenious notes for the defence of Count Guido, and cite his precedents and quote his authorities, and darken counsel with words, all to be by and by ecclesiasticized and regularized and Latinized and Ciceroized, while more than half the good man's mind is occupied with thought of the imminent "lovesome frolic feast" on his boy Cinone's birth-night, which shall bring with it lamb's fry and liver, stung out of its monotony of richness by parsley-sprigs and fennel.
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The lamb's fry should be nearly all sweetbread, and very little liver.
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