venison
[ven-uh-suh n, -zuh n]
- the flesh of a deer or similar animal as used for food.
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Origin of venison
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Contemporary Examples
We had a vast vegetable garden, fruit trees, a henhouse, and my father would hunt most of our meat: venison, elk, bear.
Dinner, at 8pm, normally consists of venison or salmon and salad.
I should hope the city's homeless people will be munching on some venison burgers for the foreseeable future.
This chair by British designer Thomas Heatherwick is now on view in his show at Haunch of Venison gallery in New York.
She said the DIVA women were happy and supportive and her family ate the venison she brought home.
Historical Examples
At length, he is persuaded--he blesses him, and eats the venison.
Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. IFrancis Augustus Cox
There, go you all on the rock, and I will bring up the Mohicans with the venison.
The Last of the MohicansJames Fenimore Cooper
A pot pie may be made of ducks, rabbits, squirrels, or venison.
Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesEliza Leslie
As venison chills immediately, the plates should be kept on heaters.
Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesEliza Leslie
Trapper Jim showed them how to cook some of the venison in a most appetizing way.
With Trapper Jim in the North WoodsLawrence J. Leslie
venison
- the flesh of a deer, used as food
- archaic the flesh of any game animal used for food
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Word Origin
C13: from Old French venaison, from Latin vēnātiō hunting, from vēnārī to hunt
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Word Origin and History for venison
n.
late 13c., from Old French venesoun "meat of large game," especially deer or boar, also "a hunt," from Latin venationem (nominative venatio) "a hunt," also "game as the product of the hunt," from venatus, past participle of venari "to hunt, pursue," probably from PIE root *weie- "to strive after, pursue with vigor, desire" (cf. Sanskrit veti "follows after," Avestan vayeiti "hunts," Lithuanian veju "to hunt, pursue," Old Church Slavonic voji "warrior," Old English waþ "hunting," Old Norse veiðr "chase, hunting, fishing;" see Venus).
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