capon
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noun
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Etymology
Origin of capon
First recorded before 1000; Middle English; Old English capun, from Latin capōn- (stem of capō ) “castrated cock”; akin to Greek kóptein “to cut,” Old Church Slavonic skopiti “to castrate”
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From the Renaissance up to the late nineteenth century, one finds many cookbooks that suggest covering boiled meat, especially poultry such as duck or capon, with macaroni or filled pasta.
From Salon ● Jan. 4, 2023
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
He stared down at the remains of his supper, his belly roiling at the sight of the cold greasy capon.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
“Isn’t it strange that the only people who eat capons are sixteenth-century courtiers and twenty-first-century Brooklyn hipsters?” a publisher in his thirties, at the Susan B. Anthony setting, observed as he chewed.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 21, 2018
The reburial of Richard's father was accompanied by three sung masses and a banquet where guests dined on capons, cygnets, herons and rabbits.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2013
The great cartoon fowls — Daffy Duck above all, of course, but also Donald and Daisy and Foghorn Leghorn and Henery Hawk — were capering capons safe from human predation.
From Time ● Oct. 31, 2013
Meanwhile, the years of superstardom were limited, because castrati tended to age badly: "Most of them become as big and fat as capons, with round and chubby hips, rumps, arms and throats."
From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2009
Nearer the door, the Queen’s Hand was attacking a brace of capons, sucking the meat off the bones and washing down each bite with ale.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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