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capon
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tags: [avian] [food]
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Definition:a gelded cockeral, fattened for eating
photo: By Anna Frodesiak [CC0], https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Capons_in_Hainan_-_03.jpg
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M. Mery. But vp with that heart, and speake out like a ramme,
Ye speake like a Capon that had the cough now:
Bee of good cheere, anon ye shall doe well ynow.
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Indeed what gentleman (or lady either) of sense, wouldn't die, I should like to know, for a well fattened capon of the right Molucca breed, stuffed with capers and mushrooms, and served up in a salad-bowl, with orange-jellies en mosaiques.
Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4: How to Write a Blackwood Article (1838)
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"With vegetables in it, you know. Then turbot with thick sauce, then ... roast beef; and mind it’s good. Yes, and capons, perhaps, and then sweets."
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina
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