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Rock Cornish

American  

noun

  1. a small hybrid chicken produced by mating Cornish and White Rock chickens and marketed especially as a roaster.


Etymology

Origin of Rock Cornish

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

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Two of my mother’s specialties were her turkey matzo ball soup and her Rock Cornish hens a l’orange.

From Washington Post • May 3, 2019

It calls Rock Cornish hens “celebratory and a bit decadent” and contains a recipe with an orange.

From Washington Post • May 3, 2019

If you can get your hands on a Rock Cornish game hen, that’s a different matter — it’s a cross of different breeds, including, excitingly, the Malaysian fighting cock.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 24, 2017

Two years later, it introduced Rock Cornish game hens, which became enormously popular and profitable.

From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2011

At the 3,000-seat Blackpool Opera House, the biggest English theater outside London, an expensive collection of British TV and variety stars was headed by Rock Cornish Singer Tommy Steele, earning $3,000 a week.

From Time Magazine Archive

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