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horseflesh

[ US /ˈhɔɹsˌfɫɛʃ/ ]
[ UK /hˈɔːsflɛʃ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the flesh of horses as food

How To Use horseflesh In A Sentence

  • British officers pencilled out amusing menus featuring horseflesh and one Major Stewart's ‘devoted batman was killed while bringing his mule-steak lunch to his dug-out’.
  • Hounds were fed horseflesh and collected on hunt days with the sound of a horn in the street.
  • Hounds were fed horseflesh and collected on hunt days with the sound of a horn in the street.
  • So the Kitchener weighed it out to him and the good-for-naught entered the shop, whereupon the man set the food before him and he ate till he had gobbled up the whole and licked the saucers and sat perplexed, knowing not how he should do with the Cook concerning the price of that he had eaten, and turning his eyes about upon everything in the shop; and as he looked, behold, he caught sight of an earthen pan lying arsy-versy upon its mouth; so he raised it from the ground and found under it a horse's tail, freshly cut off and the blood oozing from it; whereby he knew that the Cook adulterated his meat with horseflesh. Arabian nights. English
  • This repulsive figure is eternally farting; his stinking bowels suffering from his apparently endless consumption of discount horseflesh and champagne.
  • During the wooing scene, Petruchio assesses Kate as though she were a piece of horseflesh, checking her ‘gait’ for imperfections.
  • They were already on equal terms in judging horseflesh and in another year Joe would be as good a breaker as Adam was.
  • It was a downcome, though, for a man who had been proud of driving behind his own horseflesh to pack in among a crowd of the Barbie sprats. The House with the Green Shutters
  • She's a sweet women, but not very wise about horseflesh.
  • Now, some of the poorer folk cannot afford to pay for butchers 'meat, they are contented with horseflesh, which is not yet rationed, and are willing to sell their ration cards. My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71
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